“Write us not in chalk, but
ink permanent, in tattoo black
sunken into skin, raised and
still red. Never make me
cough from the dust of us,
never make me wipe my hands
of our story erased. Take
the needle and find my fingers,
draw the line and lock it,
lock me,
to you.”
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