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TIME MISSPENT

With their glassy eyes

and swirling tattoes

these are the awkwardly aggressive youths

dancing attendance to a swirling cause

as yet unexplored

a menopause

of puberty

of discontent

 

in a forest of time misspent.

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GOOD LUCK ►

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