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Jun 2014
You used to be the highest of your order
But look at you now
You are fang and claw and bone
While your prey dances around you
Just out of reach
You are only held together by glue and steel
While your prey dances around you
Squawking like the birds in your jaws
Connected by flesh and blood
That rightfully belongs in your forgotten belly
Your prey that once feared you
Raised spear and arrow at your footprints
Now brings their young within inches of
Those same claws
That gutted the great elks of Ireland
But look at you now
You are fang and claw and bone
While your prey dances around you
Connected by flesh and blood
That rightfully belongs in your forgotten belly
Amanda Laughlin Merritt
Written by
Amanda Laughlin Merritt  Ohio
(Ohio)   
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