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Key
The key has become rusted:
A thousand garden dreams,
a thousand summer skies,
a hundred thousand vernal buds
Decayed
to corroded metal.
Our dreams, our sky, the greenhouse
of our sweet words; when did they
become so red and raw with the odor
of regrettable yesterday?

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