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Baptism
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16 Baptism Ashamed and almost withering when the winged god flew from my throat I wanted to kill him for wanting him begged to be reborn as a brute or beast but it was me who wanted to be killed like a king, my uncertain body chained to the rocks promising to lie still, to be destroyed, wanting only to kiss the hands of my winged assassin I would break any promise to be so daily devoured, eternally delivered— ...