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This Too I Recall

This too I recall, glancing behind selfish I drank a good part of wine our zucchini was big, it ate all the rest a joke, the tomatoes bulging flesh this to I remember, angry the day christ was born, or so we say I took a guitar, rusty the strings sang like a squirrel, fell on my knees I remember it well, moist of eyes ladybug dancing, bathing your thighs in milk and salt, blood of grape quenched my thirst intwining fate the job, the girl - talking machine the quiet of angels, porcelain queens set all around me, praying as such why they pray, having so much This too I recall, glancing behind selfish I came, in haste did we dine in haste, great forcers. passion, love fate predestined like noah, his dove this too I recall, glancing behind love is a moment, fighting in time great is your flesh, but more is your kind heart and in this, I rest and recline

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