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Original Sin
Gray-feathered birds are nesting in my brain.
The flesh is tender but the pain
Diminutive, for pain is an opiate
For pain.
But when the young birds hatch and mate
And more claws tear the dwindling skin,
The drug will dwindle too, so thin
That I'll lie powerless, and long
Remain the meaning of their mating-song.