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Since you split my lip

I learned that blood

does taste like copper

pennies and that it is

possible for you to cry

copious tears in my lap

as I hold your hand and

notice that your knuckles

are swollen around small

cuts where my teeth hit

Since you split my lip

I dry your tears with a

dishtowel – suck the

blood back down my throat

and get you ice for your

too fast fist

and – No, there

is no need for sorry

because I truly do

know that this time

will

be

the
last

~