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Beet.

In the ground I grow

I grow plump

I grow red 

 

Once I am all done

I am yanked out of my home

Yanked out of my warm dirt 

 

I am taken with strong hands

Placed in a basket

Where I meet all of my brothers

 

We will all have the same fate

We are baked

Slowly dying

 

We stain the hands of our murderers

We are no longer whole

We are gone

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molly-claire
American
Published
May 23, 2011
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