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Mar 2022
As shrewd as a cult
As awaited as a bride
As marred as a light with another's fault
As carried as a reason amid snide

Long hair
Inch by inch, the pride of paradise?
Singing hope and chastity, the truth in a care
Will make a new song for thee, when salt becomes lies?

Dread, and the future of essential need
The weary eyes of complexity have seen
The doling, the due, and death of what we keep
For a taste of better, clarity than what austerity feeds

Eggs come of age, or so an entity once offered
Is a prophecy of compelling an adultery to sit
And prove the guidance of wishes in laughter
Was hunger of a coming family, to marvel at a justice's whit?

Where as, we are the temper of a friend of days
Come to filial deeds and decency of a muse
To wonder in brightened minds, the total of what says
Lived in the opportunity we save, is a spy with it to lose
John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmitt, ends with a paper bag without...
Written by
David Hilburn  55/M/Soldotna, Alaska
(55/M/Soldotna, Alaska)   
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