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He flipped through a book of poems Ani’d given me. Nothing fell out so he tore it in two. I said his mama must notta read to this one and one of the older cops laughed and he hit me.

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graves left or graves lost, into silence death sinks:/it's leaving the living that leaves us such pain.

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decline the prof­fered hand

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