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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
{my harborer}
  ananda osel


how kind she was to tell
such believable lies
to spare me the horrid
damning truth of
what was truly there
a kind soul
so careful and worth
my while
I'd tell her
"Without you I'm nothing!"
and until it ended
she would nod and
stroke my hair
and say she
needed me also