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Carrion

aghast, I'd not seen her for ages

a ghost of love my mind engages

but fate had turned cruel pages

 

beauty once soared from these features

hottest among human creatures

Nefertiti of love's teachers

 

still young, my experience rare

she'd flown me gently to her lair

the first woman I witnessed bare

 

two hawks preen on a pyramid

pecking morsels of new killed k...

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