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my leaves turn, my lungs need polish
skin drops to the ground, memory sticks to the wall

there's nothing in the master narrative that beats death
posters peeling from their dates are yellow

somewhere the old rectangle of the book
is porous and the words feather in the rewrite

Jil Jones
6 January 2005, Marrickville

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Jill Jones

web site: http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~jpjones
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