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The Warmth of the Body

liked to feel your body your warm skin. I liked your honey smell and your sweet breath Why is such love considered now a sin? Still Unforgiven when you met your death. I think you preferred our little cats to me. Still I liked to lie in bed with you I like to sit at Aldeburgh by the sea. Was our love too close like UHU Remember how we got to dunwich beach We found a piece of marble near the sea A whole town drowned within the North Sea’s reach And still I feel the lost cathedrals plea. Remember when the fishing fleet went out Just before the dawn there’s life about

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