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My
Stench and shed skin
Flakes still hanging
Mid-air
Before someone else
Stepped up and the line
Edged forward
Infinitesimally down
And to the left
Until the effects of
Me were unknown
Back where I thought
Things changed the most

A breath is passed
From somewhere
In all directions
We can hear the babies
Crying

Gnawing the air in my spine

My heartbeats overlap
With a back
That has never seen me
Though I must be here

And outside
Shadows grow longer
Until they've walked
The world (and
Judged it
A thousand times)

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