Ada Limón from The Hurting Kind

Before my grandfather died, I asked him what sort

             of horse he had growing up. He said,

Just a horse. My horse, with such a tenderness it
             rubbed the bones in the ribs all wrong.

I have always been too sensitive, a weeper
             from a long line of weepers.

I am the hurting kind. I keep searching for proof.

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