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Photo by Elene Usdin via Magpie Tales

girl
she said
it's time
you oughta go

dig
a hole
& unscrew
the anchor

check
yourself
out & pay
what you owe

give 
up the
landline
all of your keys

whittle
life 
down
from one hundred

to free

2015-Rene
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