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Father of my father You taught me to drive But I only drove barbed wire Through your skin. A median of blood while fixing fence. Intersecting your lifeline It broke ground thumb to elbow Blood trenches killing the grasses Like the one you alone survived A man too lucky to die You mentioned at lunch. Sharp points bent for Hide and fur Become your thorns and burrs- Like Jesus Christ and mortal sin- Marriage of farmer And his implement fortifying, dividing prime cuts of Earth. In the chapel of Monsanto’s fumes Incense of diesel fuel I prayed for a stall in the engine. Reverse, rewrap the spool Unfurl, go back to the beginning.
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Jan 17, 2012
Jan 17, 2012 at 10:46 PM UTC
Stakes in the Dirt
Father of my father You taught me to drive But I only drove barbed wire Through your skin. A median of blood while fixing fence. Intersecting your lifeline It broke ground thumb to elbow Blood trenches killing the grasses Like the one you alone survived A man too lucky to die You mentioned at lunch. Sharp points bent for Hide and fur Become your thorns and burrs- Like Jesus Christ and mortal sin- Marriage of farmer And his implement fortifying, dividing prime cuts of Earth. In the chapel of Monsanto’s fumes Incense of diesel fuel I prayed for a stall in the engine. Reverse, rewrap the spool Unfurl, go back to the beginning.
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Jan 17, 2012
Jan 17, 2012 at 10:46 PM UTC
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