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Rated: 18+ · Poetry · Other · #1569989
Just laughin', and singin' in the rain...
When I was a child,
my people and their ways
seemed a sturdy fabric.
Most of the time,
I didn’t even realize it rained.

But now, that umbrella
is a tattered wire skeleton.
It rains all of the time.
I lift my face
and set a grin
against the pelting.
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