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your daughter’s daughter named after your lover

i am

a nomenclature once original

you look like a giant in your finest beach attire

they say i have her eyes

do i?

duplicated chromosomes

oh, how peculiar

reincarnate, cyclical

i’m starting to see double

i’m starting to see

grown into my body

loudest one at the party

hope to watch you watch me

feeding lies to my head

crawling into someone’s bed

bursting out of skin fair like my mothers

duplicated chromosomes

oh, how peculiar

reincarnate, cyclical

i’m starting to see double

i’m starting to see