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thatdown at Ja on the bed

On Bobby’s shoulder is a tattoo, black and shapeless, I never noticed before

A QE2 flashback, a hts

The s slowly below us,Marina outside Club Lido, her voice raspy fro machines, Marina backlit in front of a bathroo, how purposefully she moved aroundover Marina’s face And there was the hooded parka

There was the tattoo, black and shapeless, on her right shoulder blade

This tattoo did not exist the afternoon we first ht

"You have to go to London," a voice whispered

That night, you never touched her body

You understand that so revealed

An unscheduled stop irl you didn’t save was doo

It’s what you don’t know that matters ger outside

When I look back up at the house he’s standing in a bedrooer to his lips He’s saying "Shhh"

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