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Disappearances | Poem

 
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Disappearances


 
We have choked the life
 

From youth:  sent it sprawling
 

On wintry ice to bow before
 

Gods lacking even
 

The sweet vitality
 

To be false.

 
- David W. Mitchell
 

to David   /  to Moongate
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