You took my decoder ring.
by Hezekiah Allen Taylor

Now I can't decipher the world.
It all seems odd, emotional.
Written in a different language.
A Caesar cypher without telling me
the alphabet.
Do we begin with A or a hieroglyph?
I can't do a damn thing
without proper definitions.

Francine's Version -- Hezekiah's Version
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