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Terrible words

Grasping, clawing at words 

Still fresh from the lips 

of tyrannical types you would not trust 

With your smallest, least intimate possession. 

 

Tearing at these letters 

Trying to rearrange them 

Into something more distinguished  

More befitting humanity  

 

But there are too many 

to handle and they 

continue their terrible tirade. 

words

â—„ Rose in a vase

Grey day â–º

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