'Goodnight, Kitten'

Girl; Woman / Boy; Man:

Propound rhetorics;
stay me, meld this memory
to background static

Of all else forgot.
This desperate embankment;
This verso, unknown

Boy; Man / Girl; Woman:

If only I could:
the darker dichotomy
banish, forever

From all else benign,
to end your dystopia;
to steep you with sleep.

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