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Feb 2013
Up in the air
Birds hunger to peel us.
In the field we all wander
Cutting grass with our teethΒ Β 
It is survival.
Gums callused, and scabbed backs,
We have lived too long.
Steal the weeds before someone else,
and my back will scab.
Don't steal the weeds before someone else,
or I will starve.
David Saunders
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David Saunders  Pennsylvania
(Pennsylvania)   
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