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Nine Lives
Nine lives
You’re a violent wild animal
Trying to get out of
Safe but, comfortable darkness.
Just like Maria a teenage girl
Filled of dreams
To remember
Those terrible, long
Three years
Buried under the hard chocolate wooden floors.
Dead rats and other living creatures surrounded her
By the old, wrinkly man El Patron
Repeating the same sentence
“Am I dead yet?”

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