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\f0\fs24 \cf0 Recall the days and nights that together we \
	spoke of the present and \
	rewrote our past and \
	were scared of social politics and \
	forbade the future to which we gave in. \
How long did we preach honesty and live hypocrisy after the rain fell and we fell, too?\
How long were you gone looking for sight \
	while the stars were almost visible through the air-cheap canvas \
	while the flashlights searched in the dark for delinquent lovers and breakers of taboo \
	while the chill seeped right in through the sagging walls of our cheapjack fortress in a twelve-hour city of makeshift entertainment? \
Was it five or ten or more minutes (an hour, perhaps) that I spent \
	hidden, unmoving, under the blankets from \
	eyes shut, concentrating on the sharp grass at my back to ignore \
	wishing I could pray for your invisibility to \
	listening to the shouting and the whispers that accompanied \
the lights of the searchers? \
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