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I never failed in my attempts at beauty, because it was not a question of veneers or your grandmother's collection of lurid glass. That summer you were her custodian, hanging sheets out to dry so they smelled of the dry grass, just about the only thing, you said, you'd done all day. But it'd been years since this was your home, you were filled with the montage of another city. A separate family could've fit in the suite below. When the bed groaned at us, you dragged the mattress into another empty room. Our sleep frictionless, yet still I could not afford it. I slid beside you like the heavy drapes pulled tight across the picture windows. Back east, elsewhere, you'd left some feeling.
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What is the sum of 6 and 7:
It's your turn! Move into the poem. Renovate it. Knock down its walls. Put your spin on it. Make it your own.