that's a very sharp ending: careless the bodies of children / bloodless the
paragon. Brings to mind virtue/parasite/pentagon/empty blood bank/
the careless line is heartbreaking.
Randolph
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> Bloodless
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> Untoward, unlivable, meager.
> Useless the observable.
> Uncanny methods.
> Unsurvivable.
> The occasion.
> Unfathomable events.
> The heart unlived.
> Wordless the grief.
> Not even love matters
> when the lips are sewn.
> Food, kisses more than irrelevant.
> Death in pursuit
> behind the needle.
> Pain fathomless.
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> Silence on the mountaintops.
> Caves collapse.
> Foragers forsake the mud and rocks.
> Careless the bodies of children.
> Bloodless the paragon.
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