tanbun (beautifully autistic)

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he was beautifully autistic & often in his own world. he didn't hear when police, smiling executions; demanded he stop and put up hands. he kept movin' and soon was no more. 


crunch 

of midnight leaves

night stillness

shatter'd by a phone's 

grotesque ringing 

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