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Created on: July 11, 2010
I did nothing wrong, nothing immoral
but I stand scrubbing every cell of my body
with a soap, it's not my fault
The water bounces off my back,
as if I have a layer of oil covering me.
It's four am, and I still feel nasty
as if the last hour of bathing
only made me see
impurity.
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