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Created on: June 29, 2010
My alter ego sheds me
in a pulse-filled car,
drenching me in senses;
I pretend I am my age,
a huntress
whose world is bass and instinct
and a man’s caught eyes
at the intersection
because this is all I dare,
the tribe-beat of music in the
boundaries of my car, the
passing eyes I release,
and finally the chaste room
waiting as another day ebbs
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