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DARK POEM
Published
30th Nov 2013 3:08am
Dinner with the socially wealthy
Thin is the air
crunched
rheumatoidal is the body
Their presence
twisting and shaping
to the underside of the table
The place the dog sits
infested
old
rotting
Laughter dripping through cracks
feeding a fungal march
soft
deadly
Here, a place so usual
to draw attention
could mean the removal
So still, silently folded
sitting
malnourished
irrelevant
hairless child
Look to the future
through
pale
pitted
limbs
The
prison bars
Self imposed...
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