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Mar 2020
Oh, don't abandon me, Athene,
for you are the only one
I care about.

If you forget me, Athene,
there will be nothing I can live for
and I will die.

Oh, please don't leave me, Athene, alone,
at the mercy of pigs  in the mud.
I will be dead lost without you,
and nothing will make me alive.
Peter Balkus
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Peter Balkus  40/M/United Kingdom
(40/M/United Kingdom)   
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   A Slow Heyoka
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