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Printed from https://writing.com/main/books/entry_id/1069180
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Rated: 18+ · Book · Contest Entry · #1912256
a descent into poetry insanity
#1069180 added April 19, 2024 at 7:20pm
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cousins
Mama is seventy-one, and
recently met her cousin—her mother's
father's son-by-his-second-wife's
daughter, and as they talked,
their eyes lit up, even as they talked
of difficult things, because here
was some stranger who knew her,
knew her trauma,
and understood.

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