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January 24, 2021 / barton smock

the children don’t listen to rumors of their hunger

The children they dig a hole and give the hole a name and a backache. They ask was I ever their age and slip a housefire-in-a-seashell under the pillow of an endless angel. It’s not what I say but in truth the older a thing gets, the younger its god.

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