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Punch-Drunk Poet Meets Chandelier Chin

With nothing but a jawbone, I unhinge the night, let silence die— book of broken psalms, toothless songs of what was right, of what went wrong beneath the hush of watchful sky. No prize, no game, no lullaby— just marrow's oath and blood gone dry. I didn’t mean to last this long with nothing but a jawbone. Still, blood remembers how to lie, to shape a myth, to justify, to kill wordsmiths who don’t belong— the kind who bite and call it strong. What legend lives, and who will try with nothing but a jawbone?

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Date: 7/5/2025 5:50:00 AM
Nice rhyme.
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Date: 7/4/2025 5:03:00 PM
Allusions to Samson? Speaking of jawbones one poet pleaded with me to do another audio contest. Still debating how to make it different. As far as your poem, that last stanza is like, zowie! Poets slaughtering poets. Sigh. Tis a sad state of affairs. Aye
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