smaller than all

the following are starved ideas who know that hunger is knows no idealism

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do no harm

but do not

avoid it

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do no harm

but

harm no dos

*

again

we begin

again

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i promise it is nothing

– something she said after everything

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let’s be friends

– she said, leaving already

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i’m trying

– she said after in being in bed all day

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give me a break

– she said when we broke up

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i’m not happy

– she said with words lipped from another