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Sep 2014
I've never seen a statue built to praise the broken;
I suppose it'd be near impossible to make stone that beautiful.
Instead, I've seen a thousand things carved ugly into stone like scars,
seen monuments to monumental mess-makers,
seen their war hero waste-lands build bars around the hearts
of a thousand cast-iron shackled slave saviors, but
I've never seen a statue built to praise the broken;
I suppose it'd be near impossible to make stone that beautiful.
Kaitlyn Phillips
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Kaitlyn Phillips  Fort Collins, CO
(Fort Collins, CO)   
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