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Best Commissary Poems


Commissary
The rains speak to me
Let the torrents wash along
Questions unasked
Sometimes
The words of the Old Man ring
Constant
Let the mountains speak
Let the winds howl
Timidly, I lap at waters
Tamed savages sip savagely from behind
Cages made of glass
Etiquettes and bestiality
Woven into
Golden urns
Whose contents are black ashes!...

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Categories: commissary, allusion, anger, bereavement, character,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things