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Rated: 18+ · Book · Drama · #1253431
Poetry in April -- in celebration
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#932066 added April 4, 2018 at 11:32am
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He Sleeps through the Night
inside the room, the panic of social abyss...
still, I watched in rapt incomprehension
the fateful scene without veto
when Jessica, the fourteen-year-old
in hand-me-down shorts and tee,
handed her baby over to Millie,
with a false smile and stuttered,
“he sleeps through the night.”

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Prompt: hand-me-down, hand-me-up, or hand-me-over
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