
Wisdom
After the ground is burned and
its black skeleton trees removed
the machines scrape
till it bleeds yesterday,
worms rolling up to escape;
Strange. Surreal. Shocking. Beautiful.
Strange. Surreal. Shocking. Beautiful.
After the ground is burned and
its black skeleton trees removed
the machines scrape
till it bleeds yesterday,
worms rolling up to escape;
Day 409
They told me
When they came for me
The man-
His thumb, I bit it off
He needed twenty-four stitches.
Imagine that.
Between, time
freezes, the perfect
points of the un-astered stars
unmoving in their
fixed array: a field
Shambling through the streets,
Are we alive, or just existing?
Almost all the buildings are empty.
A testament to unceasing need.
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