for rent

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i think i have always known
that you would take your leave
of the summer house
you rented in my ribcage
when we were seven years old
the death of love
is verbatim to me
though i peer at you
in hope of a stolen key
a clue that you would return home
but you leave empty-handed
homeless now, but free.

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