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Fighting before bed (Free verse) by zodiac
She said she'd surely sleep upset,
but I recalled she had that charming nature
which forgets
with ease a thoughtless epithet;
so I smirked a bit, I wagered
she would shortly sleep and not regret
crass nomenclature,
warm in our eiderdown plicature.
And she (all laugh and sidelong threat,)
replied a thousand years would not assuage her
ire â and yet
she seemed unsure and sleep-beset,
and lay against the wall, a shoulder
curved. I watched; and, mindful of the bet,
she smoldered,
pressed between the bed and molding,
until a line of weary fret
passed across her face â let sleep enfold her,
smoothed her, let
her be a childlike still coquette
who smiled then in her sleep, and did forget -
and so I woke her up and told her.
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