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Reticence

reticent
to step into whirlwinds
of rhetorical debris
screeching
screaming
hell bent on decapitating
poking tongues
slicing deep
sharp
and savage
into lifeworn channels of intercourse

storms can instill rejuvenation
but the utterly destroyed
do not, can not
recuperate

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