Cheltenham: CHS Facade edition with preface

#1142
Desperation is the need
to be loved sans reason,
& I can’t stop you either,
so I’ll be happy to watch as
you dig a grave of ignorance—
someday you’ll hate me, but
I have no other way to love—
she crawled down the stairs
at 4 a.m. to smoke a Marlboro
Red in peace, out on the porch,
knowing tomorrow she’d
outshine those dimwitted stars,
cracked & fractured from
overuse, in a pie-high sky—
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