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hours on Thursday
and back pain, upper back pain
i cried in the preschool

they told her no
she told them no

i cried in the preschool
like no one knows

she told them no because
they told her no

“what are you needing?”
(she had never heard)
i said
and a stone house gets thrown

i’m glass
she’s glass
and they want us to be stone