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THE BIRTH OF WRITING

by Marilyn McIntyre



sometime after lunch
a sneeze and then
my teeth come out
and my thoughts
dentures in glass
words on paper
water and ink
tears and terms
two saviours
lured back
in time
for dinner.





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