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Poetry and prose
Poem
Clouds
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You spent most your life
with your head in the clouds
of smoke that billowed forth
from the O-shaped mouths
of the ones you love.
You never smoked
so much as one cigarette
in all your cloudy days
spent in places you came
to call bittersweet home. …
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