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lean candles hunger in | |
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the silence a | |
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brown god | |
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smiles between greentwittering | |
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smokes from broken eyes |
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a sound | |
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of strangling breasts and bestial | |
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grovelling | |
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hands rasps the purple | |
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dark- |
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ness | |
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a | |
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worshipper | |
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prostrate within twitching shadow | |
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lolls |
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sobbing | |
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with lust |
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