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During that summer
When unicorns were still possible; When the purpose of knees Was to be skinned; When shiny horse chestnuts (Hollowed outWere puffed in green lizard silence While straddling thick branches Far above and away From the softening effects Of civilization; During that summer -
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Thick pink imperial slices Melting frigidly on sun-parched tongues. Dribbling from chins; Leaving the best part, The black bullet seeds To be spit out in rapid fire Against the wall Against the wind Against each other; And when the ammunition was spent, There was always another bite: It was a summer of limitless bites, Of hungers quickly felt And quickly forgotten With the next careless gorging. The bites are fewer now. But in a jar put up by Felicity, |