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To refreshing winds
where new things grow
and green
permeates
the dead.
 Dec 2024 Jack Groundhog
Daksh
Man
 Dec 2024 Jack Groundhog
Daksh
Man
I‘m a man they said

calm and composed
For when I speak these knives come out
cutting the air on its way

For my lips are the whestone
sharpening the blade these words are
whenever I speak my heart

For the pain I carry is the dark obsidian
forming the edge
where I would fall from
In eleventh grade, I learned the word
grotesque.  
It seemed to me that it was tied to human  
nature.  
All the lines we try to hide growing  
thicker.  

We are monsters, the animals to  
fear.  
Rabbits don’t need Botox, yet we rip off their
heads.  
A bit rude when you think about it;
unnecessary.  

I want to be old and like a rabbit when I  
die.  
Shriveled and happy and kind like a  
baby.  
One or the other: bunny or child it’s up to
me.
5am
5am,
snuffed between the fingers of the day
slumming stars and a night not fully broken,
the waking world, its petals still to open
is filled with silent promises unspoken
 Dec 2024 Jack Groundhog
nivek
steel blue, a racing tide
waters disappearing
over the horizon.
I can't be you
you can't be me
but we can come together
in mutual respect and dignity
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