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27 PRAYER Cornered as any bed frame four ways angled to hurt have learned especially at night I must be sharpest. Sentinel that is not a sentinel as the hardness of weaponry only predicts the body’s softest plane and dominates. You, the nothing but the matter of a breathing not yet sullied into breath— nothing that hones to a point or wants to not be damaged by its own use— prior to its freezing, its descent into shape. If you keep me molten always ready to ( ) dear breath dear absence coming via Vegas, via anywhere to a leaving of itself behind— If you help me draw the outline of my own decease here carefully unname its presence— Here is a pen o make it erase ...

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