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Sleeping

by  KnoxOverstreet

Posted: Saturday, February 12, 2005
Word Count: 60




I love you
Your extraordinary courage
And capability
In the face of adversity
But when I bled our child

Into the toilet
To mix with piss
And Domestos
Your desire to fix things
Suffocated me like coal gas

Your presence a thick blanket
That lay
On my breath
Reminding me how my useless body
Took the life of a baby