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The Little Match Girl

By camilla

Thu, 10 Feb 2005
  • 1920 reads
 

There is
strike flash
a warm house
Christmas lit
it smells
strike flash
of ginger bread
spiced wine
fragrant evergreen
Let me in
Let me in
I'm ghostly with cold
love me
love me
Let me in

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