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rat-poison, tar, apple-cider

it is as black as night out
but we stay late in the grass
in our shorts, catching butterflies
all i can smell is smoke
the scent of my mother on the front porch,
cigarette dangling from her hand

Poet: Mikael O'Doughartaigh

read: 10728 times Rating: Date: 02 July, 2008

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