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Wretched
Ben Swearingen
He was marked wretched of the earth
Creased his skin before his crying birth
She crawled out of her youth with a wicked curse
Meet in the matrimony of a dying hearse
Her smoke burned the inside of his throat lining
Her eyes burned with salt from his chronic crying
All they wanted was to be, just to be
Terminal honeymoon
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