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I never checked the boxes.
Or I checked them all.

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Mountain and valley fold.
The creases deep and sharp as blades.

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I am all my names. And something more.
Perhaps that’s what is meant by Becoming.

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The sales clerk said, helpfully: Sometimes
the size is different depending on the maker.

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The lizard sheds the tail
that has been caught in the closing door.

In response to an entry from the Morning Porch.