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Swim With Me

September 24, 2013
By Roberta-Renee BRONZE, Middlebury, Connecticut
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My bones creak
and my skeleton fights with everything it has
to stay afloat.
But you wrapped a chain and anvil around my ankle
and threw me under.

You stole my breath
in the least romantic way.

© Nina G., Nashville, TN

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