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Les Miserable

Les Miserable I walked and walked down a steep ravine and came across a village has forgotten by time by a road that evaded dwellings A track not trodden among boulders and roofs made of canes. skinny women with empty breasts sat on the bough of trees waiting for someone to enter their loss of love While telling their idiot children in the wet grass to shut up Oh, crying stones free us from the untidy domestic wilderness where dogs are too indifferent to muster barks. Under flat stones, the men are hiding the emptiness of the existence too much to bear now that the vines take no berry On this day that has no time, but the endlessness of the gone Cabbage patch, yellow chickens looking for worms before the children do because they are hungry too.

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Date: 1/25/2023 8:01:00 AM
Sounds like a cultural transitions' attempted failure, but who doesn't want to replicate the empire which puts the footprints of men on the moon? Take an honest backward glance at those "Savage" cultures we absorbed/destroyed for gold and Santa. Not a default stamped ticket to the glory realm
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