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Sky’s the limit on #DomesticViolence

Once it was
over

your
anger embedded
in
her broken
back

did your fist
hurt?

Was that your
first
or only

regret?

Once
it was over

and always should
be over

you.

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Posted on January 15, 2018Author peteCategories PoetryTags Domestic Violence, Sky TV New Zealand, Tony Veitch

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