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when no water

coffee from stale flask itchy armpits no shower |||||| soap waits ***** teeth cleaned with wet - less brush /////beauty buries herself in bones underbellies flip emotions empty empathy give gratitude for www. a t E r NEVER TOO LATE fate futile sees a waterfall the one they named after Queen Victoria in an ancient African land holding GOLD disappeared where to where from > ___________pipe’s fixed …..S A L love empty U spaces where water + blood trickles T E A. L. L. M. I. G. H. T. Y.

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Date: 7/17/2025 10:43:00 PM
Wow. This is raw. I love the metaphor and how it's used, certainly!!
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