SKELETON KEY

(Otherwise known as Questions, All of Them Rhetorical)

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_how                                       do

I                                   even                            begin

to                                                                     tell                                                                   you

how                             all

the                   happy             songs

         hurt_                             

or                                the                   capacity                      of

rain_

in         even       so

small                                                   an                                            amount_

cupped

in                     human            hands_

to

drown                a                   face                 pinched

in                                                                                                                                 sorrow?_