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sway with me, everything sad --
madmen in stone houses
without doors,
lepers steaming love and song
frogs trying to figure
the sky;
sway with me, sad things --
fingers split on a forge
old age like breakfast shell
used books, used people
used flowers, used love
I need you
I need you
I need you:
it has run away
like a horse or a dog,
dead or lost
or unforgiving.


Submitted by .eve.

Added: 2 Jun 2002 | Last Read: 20 Oct 2026 12:00 PM | Viewed: 9691 times

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