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"She dons her velvet second skin -- she thinks that I don't know
 She thinks I'm dreaming twisting dreams, and she prepares to go.
 It's true that I am sated, but I'm wakeful and alert,
 And I pray that she'll find prey, so that her kisses needn't ... hurt
    I can only hope that something will go outside and steal
    Through the darkness, where she'll find it quite enough to make a meal."
      -- from "Crushed Velvet" by Rennie Levine, 1995 (after "Velvet" by Talis kimberly and to the tune of "Velveteen" by Kathy Mar. Source: Conterpoint Too program book, 1996)