The Unsaid
Of 1963, I remember
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The nexus
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little, but the
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locked words: infidels
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woman locked in
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but for this, but for
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ice |
secrecy
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a sideshow trick
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that betrayal
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The thick maillot she wore
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webbed, broad
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her lips, faintly blue
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sticky
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beneath the red lipstick
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an unknown
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—purple then,
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that you cannot
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unquiet
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or will not
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exhume: the sign
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enter without
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my parents’ marriage |
fracturing |
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