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1.

if he falls from this tree
(he doesn’t know how he got there)
bones will break

he will be a broken man
he will be a fallen man

2.

she sets herself on fire
and waits for everyone else

to put it out

3.

at 6 or 7 or 8
no one told them
this is where they’d be
this is who they’d be

of course
no one could have told them

of course
even if someone could have told them
they would never have listened

—P.L. Thomas