You can try all you want

The furtherance of my plight has

now been left stainless and still.

Remembrance rowels my side

leaving stigmatic traces of

ruffled skin and phone numbers

long since forgotten.

We all need to fuck.

It's the law.

The hurt that comes

from either or is not.

 

Raymond M.Strickland 1994

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