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or kill the oppressive lie
to destruction. I set
[                                      ]
[                  ] her face
on her world is accidental:
with liberty [              ]
immune to the satisfaction

to release her unhappiness
aside from experience
of both to let fascination
a decade since I last
[             ] possess a temper
a companion to desire:
by a newly deserved recoil
but do not ever spell

is curious and indifferent
[                               ]
and prefer to keep nothing
to gain love. My hold
how demonic I might become
of an alien [               ]
how I split the text apart

or kill the oppressive lie
that I might help her:
to release her unhappiness
into a regulated life
is curious and indifferent
to destruction. I set
her scar and her split lip
aside from experience
to turn upon a starry axis
[                                 ]
[                                     ]
count it too wasteful
of both to let fascination
dissolve a friendship
and prefer to keep nothing
[                  ] her face
became labelled and secret
a decade since I last
practiced such crude magic
to gain love. My hold
on her world is accidental:
an absence of control
[             ] possess a temper
uneven enough to show
how demonic I might become
with liberty [              ]
but restraint is no longer
a companion to desire:
it is shrouded in the home
of an alien [               ]
immune to the satisfaction
of being less haunted
by a newly deserved recoil
[              ] to consider
how I split the text apart

to make space for her name
but do not ever spell
it in full [                            ]