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I am Jasenovac

Single file, you enter here

Cleansed the earth

My bludgeoned guest

Your head will bleed

I crush your chest

By way of my own failures

Shimmering blade to slit the throats

To skin the child

To stitch the coats

For my dead heart, my own ustasha

It serves to drain all scarlet life from veins

Buried in my neck

Mine, only mine

Festering laceration like god's filthy fingernail

Probing the land for the hatred of myself

My kind

My name

My world

I am the place of ghosts entwined in bloodied thread

Spun from life and death

Spun from life and death.

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Tony Taylor

Jaime!!.....every time I read you.........you get better.........like any great craftsman working at his calling in life..........the ambiance created here holds it's continuity throughout........with staggering phrasing.........and word choices that can only have come from you........your talent is raw and truly compelling........I felt as if I were in an ugly struggle where pulling my hair out was my only option..........Wow!!......    7*s    FAV.........amazing write brother!............Love and Rockets..........T xo 

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Jaime Ribeiro

Tony, your verbal kindness renders me speechless...thank you so very much for such benevolent compliments on my work. This really means a lot to me. Kindness like this is the kind I carry with me, always. Stay rad, bro. :) \m/

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