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Your love blindsided me from the start.
You’ve got it down pat, like an art.
Here I am again, surprised.
This time, by my demise.
Sucker punched, gut shot.
I’m on the ropes.
Count it down,
ten, nine…
out!
About the Creator
Randy Baker
Poet, author, essayist.
My Vocal "Top Stories":
* The Breakers Motel * 7 * Holding On * Til Death Do Us Part * The Fisherman
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