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May 2025

Macron
Macron Absurdity of that slap The world saw and how He looked looking back. Not the face he puts on For his people, that. No, the real one, the one His…
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Austin Smith
Whitetail Shoulder Mount, Wisconsin
Whitetail Shoulder Mount, Wisconsin I swear the head of the buck My brother shot has turned Since last I was home like it did The snowy morning he heard…
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AI
AI Articles about the risks of AI Read by automated voices. It seems the deeper into the labyrinth We go, the fewer choices. We must breathe the water…
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Age
Age The trains of thought are derailing Someone must have switched the tracks In the night like a light switch The robbers lay in wait in the ditches…
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Cruising Altitude
Cruising Altitude Coke of snow on the mountains below And is it any wonder The wind does blow a lot Mountaintops shaped like ziggurats Boys playing with…
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Dying
Dying Dying is embarrassing Everyone turning away from their lives To look at you And you not there A stage actor who’s forgotten His lines Gossip you…
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Vaccine
Vaccine Single-file into the cathedral, Only these have ceased to believe in me. Still, they’re here, lighting candles in the naves, Praying as if in a…
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Violets
Violets There was a spot where without fail They appeared in patches the color Of their name.
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Hope
Hope These trees hold their nests up Like drinkers holding up their glasses The nests hold their broken eggshells Like a box holds broken bowls Broken…
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