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Nicholas Ryan Sampson

Nicholas Ryan Sampson

Admire #1

I see poems that
need to be written
scrawled in the shape
of your smile and
the lines of your face
Poems of your life
your love
your death
I have read them all
never ceasing
repetitiously
I have been haunted
by you
I am writing
my exorcism

(2013)

#Death #Life #Love

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