Kelly Matthews English<\/p>\n
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Let me teach you how to lie.<\/p>\n
Each night locks turned<\/p>\n
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we sing: I’m not afraid to die.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n
Deep in sleep we meet<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
a heavier freight; face the stone<\/p>\n
space inside the mind. You see<\/p>\n
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I am afraid of everything<\/p>\n
because I cannot close my eyes.<\/p>\n
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Once a mother lost her children<\/p>\n
and saw forever<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
how they looked at Death,<\/p>\n
still back he gazed–<\/p>\n
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tunnel-mouthed<\/p>\n
red underripe lips, they were gone<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
into the rest of it<\/p>\n
and all that came, a dumb-rent nothing.<\/p>\n
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I want you to repeat after me.<\/p>\n
When he comes, I want you to sing it<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
just like this. I want you to<\/p>\n
close your eyes to the dark and<\/p>\n
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use this trick, steal away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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