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Severance

Tolled the bell, lichen scarred and green ingrained the brass clanging out of key and jarred when severance came to pass. Rocked the pulse, neurosis slowed and pounded sly and weak, untruthful psalms died on the road disinheriting the meek. Fired the treason signal flare and cobalt turned to grey, to earth it fell without a care, it burned out far away. Picking up the pieces and a blue dismembered child, the anger soured the thesis of an innocence defiled. Tolled the bell, cracked with doom and discord shook the scene; ethnic cleansing drove the broom and swept the graveyard clean.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2005




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