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Tzompantli
 
Portrait
Of the artist as, or
Bust fashioned after
Guillotene likeness:
 
with words so moribund / mine mein vein
their print was messy even / never been kissed
as the canvas was still drying / never been loved
please do not touch the canvas / but still damaged
under any circumstances or you / deep excavation men
will be strangled             my / at work for value at great
hand writing twisted my prose contorted
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