Palpitations

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Palpitations

Perhaps, it is not the caffeine—
how dark it was in your cup
and the absence of creamer on it
that makes you shake right now;
perhaps it was something more
than what your lips could speak
or one that you, too, do not know
and so you blame it to your coffee

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