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With Love

By Sergei Mutsenko

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everybody went awaynobody stayedto kiss the handthrust ina  handful of Earthinto the eyeswas left under the skywhich wasn’t left so muchanymorecrossed my handsran out    a cat was    eating up a dove    staring    eyes full of love    in the deep sack of    the fur    at a spider    stumbling drunkenly    over the dew so little was left  came all at oncelime on the facesboiling wine in the cups    removed the furniture    bathed the baby    put it quiet    smelling of crushed poppy    onto the mother’s bosom    which there was    as much as the sea    the congealing ocean blood* Written October 5th, 2001 © on Oct 05 2001 01:47 AM PST   0 • 1

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"everybody went awaynobody stayedto kiss the handthrust ina  handful of Earthinto the eyeswas left under the skywhich wasn’t left so muchanymorecrossed my handsran out    a cat was    eating up a dove    staring    eyes full of love    in the deep sack of    the fur    at a spider    stumbling drunkenly    over the dew so little was left  came all at oncelime on the facesboiling wine in the cups    removed the furniture    bathed the baby    put it quiet    smelling of crushed poppy    onto the mother’s bosom    which there was    as much as the sea    the congealing ocean blood*..."

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