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A Little Spilled Milk

A Little Spilled Milk

You are not the cycle breaker

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Alyssa Allegretti
Jan 10, 2024
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A Little Spilled Milk
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You are not the cycle breaker.

You come from a long line of cycle breakers

If all they could break was their own back

From the weight of the welt’s of their father’s belt

They spared their own child one day

In favor of every moment of grief they never felt

Exploding the moment the milk hit the floor.

I wish you could cry

Over a little spilled milk.

I wish I coul…

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