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twelve - this house needs saving

This house needs saving
     one banged his head against its walls

This house needs saving
     one patronizes like a hurt, flightless bird,
     inexhaustible than the hurt

This house needs saving
     one sings the whys and wherefores
     with so much truth

This house needs saving
     but the one with the truth left her
     head in the shaft

This house needs saving
     a child almost survived in its throat, dies

This house needs saving
     one screeches unto children, eats the children

This house needs saving
     the children wish for this be over, only
     so much can let go

This house needs saving
This house needs saving
Now