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Their faces
plaster
castings.
Eyes wide
wonder...


as if-
-I'm... 
   i don t know what...
a token that just
glinted in the 
sun---- 
on the sidewalk 
as they stepped past.


a stone.


Only. hello.
 I breathe -- and smile
--the only oNE 
who
doesn't know 
What
 was just whispered
Before they looked


.