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L.C. McQuillen

A liquid substance �With grey eyes As a rain cloud �Form is an unfamiliar thing.

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Kinkpoet

I write from darker corners of my mind. ��'Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.' �Cesar Cruz

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Anger Poems
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