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Monday, September 12, 2022

Brian Bilston

Composition
 
The human body
is sixty per cent water,
he read
 
and he sat there,
silent, frowning,
 
wondering
whether that was why
he always felt
 
as if he was
slowly drowning.
Posted by The Urban Mermaid on Monday, September 12, 2022
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