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Scrabbling for Synonyms for Skin

The dictionaries were rigidified
By certain secretions, spurted in the midst
Of our desperation to fuse two disparate dialects.
There, our separate speeches
Passed over the other, again and again,
And collected in a chasm carved by distinction.

Fruitlessly, we chafed against our dissimilitude.
Written by blaberidae
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Written on 17 January 2024.
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