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“Marble Days” by Changming Yuan
Literature, PoetryYou believed when you were weak
Hard were a man’s bones and heart
His days were so tough to soften it was to break
You imagined them like sweat
Frozen into marble
I know, pretty round stuff
Marble balls, the kind many boys toy indoors
On a cold evening