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                                                            partition

            the first speakers of italo-romance dialects
            to arrive on another land mass probably
            impressed the locals with their
            extravagant gestures and intonations.

                        their armies quickly vanquished, it’s
                        a wonder any remnants of their culture
                        survived at all.

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disgust is a four letter word

when you meant three,
a false start friend,

a broken branch,
an aborted embryo a dead

leaf of a misplaced tree.
disgust is when you try with all your might,

and someone spits,
and turns away,

and manages with one single breath
to be all you

won’t ever be.

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