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A Skeleton Hanging In A Pig Pen

I once had vivid flesh,
muscles, ligaments and pigment
that tied me to earth's beasts

Now I swing upon a hook
in a sullied, smelly pig pen

Where pigs do all they can
to avoid big men of harvest

And I wish upon a star
I still had eyelids
Written by ExercisingDemons
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