By the guppy
Date: 18 December 2000
mute chord
i'd feel the gentle strumming on my heartstrings
if they were attached
and tuned
to play this chorus of once-in-a-blue-moon
but i exchanged them for wings
and learned, by and by
to be reliant on updrafts
tone-deafness
and a self without strings
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