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A Detached Tail

A house lizard’s detached tail wriggles. Flavor of parting is pain. To sacrifice a part to save the rest is sagacity. A soul needs neither fair nor the whole body. The tail’s pizzazz and warmth vanish in stillness. Even a piece of flesh is stinky without soul.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2017




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