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he will grip me by my hair,

and drag me outside.

he'll say he's Romeo

and I'm Juliet;

it'll be a lovely suicide.

I start to reflect.

all the men I cherish

are no men at all,

rather, they dissect

the hearts of the perished

and answer to no call.

Sawyer used to tell me

I'm worth more then twenty dollars,

which I've thought about 

for twenty years

and will for twenty more.