despair

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The word despair droops down below the margins,
Sinking into the ocean of no words
Where the writing is obsolete.

She is like her writing;
Her ts slant downward,
Her rs hanging like vines in a forest,
So close to meeting gravity face-to-face
And fall
Onto the earth that means death.

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