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Poetry: from Ilsted: The Merman Cycle, 2004-2008
Theme-shifting again. . . . This post will serve to introduce a short story that will unfold over the next couple of days.
You made your sentence
For the children’s sake.
Twenty years you stayed,
laid down
your life, picked up
after someone else’s.
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