My heart goes out to licorice with 2 c's
to Jazz For Toddlers, jumbo sausages
and poodles with unnaturally black nails
but most of all my heart goes out to you
shrieking at me till you're so exhausted
you sort of shrivel up like a sea-cabbage
that might as well be white it's so blue,
the white of someone sitting in the snow
who can't remember how to get back up again
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