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FOR:________

A recluse bloats with bruises

Above the note he left on the floor.

He chose to choke the excuses of why he couldn’t cope,

And address the letter to loneliness— the front reads, FOR: _____

Scrawled on the envelope

With nothing written inside.

They’d lost him long before the rope

It’s been since then they’ve thought of him and cried.

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