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premises drawn from scratch

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a ratio turned rationale
and then a faraway
position hypothetical
to aggravate
the posture of
withholding

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the very smallness in a day

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speaking across proffered evidence

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and left to likely sleep amid
the wherewithal

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some summer afternoon
poolside as children

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equally a measured present tense

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as this, now, your reading
what is here