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Beaten

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a pulley like that never comes back 
down from rapunzel's tower
ignorance is learned, in all irony
wisdom, for them, stems from a hollow place
branching out,
but thin limbs can't hold their weight

chaos whispering, 
out from grime, and splintered furniture
starving dogs, and creaking world
she disappeared 
shimmering into conscious view
captured midnight on a runaway highway
bit down on wolfhound freedom
and with it, her tongue

laws, taking up the catalysing girl
protectors, cleaning up acid memories
a hypochondriac coughing out injustices
shrieking for daughters moulded out of sin
needing her back, to etch mind markings  
impossibility of ever making good
a sharp kind of love

twisting now from unease,
to snaking devil's hope
a place for her to live, without
ideas of life thrust to her sleeping soul
My cousins were taken away by Child and Family Services, from a religious family
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