Best Unfavorable Poems

Fabled America is slipping away, 
surely you’ve felt it, like wind knocking 
a weather vane in another direction.
At some unnoticed moment
we decided to ignore realities
as a man intent on drowning himself
plows heedlessly through the waves....

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Local word mixer.
Risky job pays big money,
a days pay with us
for a month alone.

Increasing tension,
a no show.
We go to his abode.
A massacre we did find.
Blood ankle deep.
Mother, brother, father, 
son, and daughter.
One and all taken.
Fourteen is the total.
All without heads,
twisted, tangled torsos, 
lying about, here...

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