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Wednesday, April 9, 2014

NaPoWriMO 4-8-2014

The nine-year-old
and the six-year-old
beg after folding knives,
jumping up and down
the way they do,
their pleading eyes
appealing to my own youth.

They do not appreciate
the old man's memory:
that storied history of
slip-joint blades folded over onto knuckles.

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