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The girl with the clothes hanger limbs

and hard, emaciated, haunting face

trips languidly down alabaster slopes

dressed in chiffon and gossamer threads.

A lightning pure flashflashflash bleaches features

already the shade of phantoms and

the dark socket depths of haunted eyes

are ablaze with a shimmer of flash bulbs.

 

Angular shoulder blades...

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