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I read her mind

she's like a book

no chapter worth a second look

 

my life-sentence

jailed on a page

brackets bar this printed cage

 

her musings pour

bound by rude glue

she rarely takes you anywhere new

 

she intends to

edit me out

I'm two two-dimensional; I cannot shout

 

other fellows

fill the pages

to supplement her bulging wages

 

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Nemesis

her tongue was always sharp

a feisty often ferocious maid

until she met her nemesis,a

spouse fit to blunt her blade

 

oh, my task was far from easy

many the battles we did fight

she refused to give up easily

but one day she saw the light

 

she wanted to go out I didn't

defying me she partied away

she got home the door locked

saw the price she had to pay

 

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