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Rated: 13+ · Book · Writing · #2178453
This book holds the items for the contest I enter in 2019, 2020, and beyond.
#1023657 added December 25, 2021 at 4:28pm
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The Cat With the Tear Tracked Eyes
The Cat
With the Tear Tracked Eyes

Ebony tear tracks--
the color of blood dried
and baked in the African sun--
commemorates the Cheetah's sorrows.

Tears wept for all the species
that flowed
out of the jaws
of extinction.


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