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Don’t look directly
at the stars.
Look sidelong.
Don’t eat mad.
It isn’t bad manners.
It isn’t disrespect.
Chew and swallow
then see if
you are angry.
Don’t risk malabsorption.
Push the purple up
into your scalp
past the hairline
with your fingertips.
Require an explanation
better than: it’s the wind.
Teach the boys to
vote with nectar
and the girls with rocks.
Nothing is too far
from your heart
to kill you.
I don’t care how
you’re motherlike
only that you are.

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