monsters

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question:
how do you make a monster
stop feeling so monstrous?

you give her something she can hold
in her palms
without crushin.
you give her something sweet
and tell her to keep it.

you wipe the blood from her hands.
you say her name,
over and over,
like an absolution.

you forgive her.
you forgive her.
you forgive.

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