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If they come for you, you're dead.
Dad used to bury that warning into our heads, let it rot and stagnate until we knew with every bit of us that we should be scared of the Fosters. And I was terrified. Cal would attempt to make dad stop mid-story and it'd always end in laughter. They didn't think I would catch them, but I saw the wary glances and the look in their eyes after the smiles had faded. The Fosters would come for me on my thirteenth birthday and there wasn't anything they could do to stop it.
Four years' work in the Factory, mandatory once you hit thirteen, something about preparing us for our future. Some of us learned that lesso
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Every day in summer
Every day begins my walk in front of our house
Every day I go over the railway crossing out to the fields.
Every day I see about the land that lies in front of me.
Every day I see cyclists, joggers and other walkers.
Every day I see the tractors and combine harvesters which work on the fields.
Every day I see the first sprout of a plant.
Every day I see hundreds of plants grow
And then rot.
Every day I hear the crackle of electricity cables high above my head.
Every day I look up at the sky and see the blue of the sky and the bright white of the fleecy clouds.
Every day I see the wildflowers at the edge of the path that I walk. They
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Lost and Found
He has prayed as much
as he said "I love you"
in both cases
they were inaudible
Occasionally you can hear him
when he traces the outline of you
similar to the way
a stroke induced December
remembers to speak spring
like he's seen you before in his dreams
You can hear him
when his eyes linger at your smile
as if he could find faith
from your light
trapped, imbedded in insecurity
his way is a broken record even the deaf could listen to
He will not say I love you
not because he doesn't
but because you can not hear a man
you have yet to meet
but when you do, oh god, you will be brutally aware
Because with love like his
you could dr
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Hiring a lawyer makes you look guilty. haha. Perfect.