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between beauty and pain

this day 
some small 
moment of grace 

breakfast 
without screaming 

blood 
but not my own 

and 
three years later 
the fear is 
still of the cancer 
returning 

and in 
the cold grey 
before sunrise 
the choice between 
beauty and pain 
is still difficult 
and always made 
incorrectly 

and the dogs 
will all fuck you 
on your birthday 

and you'll learn 
to be happy 

imagine 
that

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