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Storm Petrel

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The black death, you troubadour, songwriter
Writing to verse, cauterising your heart
Sit in bars, watching the optics pour
Harbingers of bad weather.

🌷(5) 

alcoholism   troubled heart   bonds

◄ Gone Girl

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