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Please Wash Your Hands

Hands like dirt Cracking in sunlight where weeping willows grow and glow burning in the snow freeze-dried tied below and pulled into a flash fire your art dies you write the words "right before they kissed" with the "i"s undotted time unalloted the crime has been spotted your hands are covered in dirt wash them in the fire wash them dry watch them die with all your worst ideas with your eyes wash them dry they're not worth your tears watch them die with your eyes wash them dry they're not worth my tears watch them die with all your worst ideas watch them but don't wash them just throw them in the fire watch them dry up close your nose and drown it in dirt until the smoke can't fly watch the smoke eat it up and leave the dirt behind wash them in the fire wash them dry watch them die with all your worst ideas with your eyes wash them die they're not worth your tears close your eyes so you can't see their cries close your nose so your can't smell their lies close your ears so you won't hear them disappear

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