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Restraint

by Joanne Marisa Leow
if we had been wise

now

a mere hypothetical

we have been (of course)

terribly unwise

kisses

     are but momentary

         bursts of truth

wisdom

sadness, honesty

  restraint

these last lifetimes


to put my heart

          precariously in these hands

                        blissful suicide



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