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William Haskins

William Haskins

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[FONT=.SF UI Text][FONT=.SFUIText]The creek was [/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=.SF UI Text][FONT=.SFUIText]long dry.[/FONT][/FONT]

[FONT=.SF UI Text][FONT=.SFUIText]The sign leaned, [/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=.SF UI Text][FONT=.SFUIText]wide and rotting,[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=.SF UI Text][FONT=.SFUIText]writ in dead [/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=.SF UI Text][FONT=.SFUIText]ember fading.[/FONT][/FONT][FONT=.SF UI Text]
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[FONT=.SF UI Text][FONT=.SFUIText]What madness [/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=.SF UI Text][FONT=.SFUIText]must drive a hand [/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=.SF UI Text][FONT=.SFUIText]to spell out such[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=.SF UI Text][FONT=.SFUIText]a simple doom?[/FONT][/FONT]

[FONT=.SF UI Text][FONT=.SFUIText]Surely she'd looked [/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=.SF UI Text][FONT=.SFUIText]upstream for a reason,[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=.SF UI Text][FONT=.SFUIText]some poison flower [/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=.SF UI Text][FONT=.SFUIText]or stone-like bones [/FONT][/FONT][FONT=.SF UI Text]
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[FONT=.SF UI Text][FONT=.SFUIText]stripped by the slow [/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=.SF UI Text][FONT=.SFUIText]crawl of drought [/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=.SF UI Text][FONT=.SFUIText]to carry their
sickness [/FONT][/FONT][FONT=.SF UI Text][FONT=.SFUIText]downstream.[/FONT][/FONT][FONT=.SF UI Text]
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[FONT=.SF UI Text][FONT=.SFUIText]Surely it must have[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=.SF UI Text][FONT=.SFUIText]compounded her grief[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=.SF UI Text][FONT=.SFUIText]to know she [/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=.SF UI Text][FONT=.SFUIText]didn't drink first.[/FONT][/FONT][FONT=.SF UI Text]
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[FONT=.SF UI Text][FONT=.SFUIText](Why did she not drink first?)[/FONT][/FONT]
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