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Thursday, August 26, 2021

in the woods


by genghis gilgamesh



there is an old woman
who lives in the woods
because people are bad
when they should be good

when she was young
she gave them a chance
they had feathers in their hats
and pockets in their pants

they had flowers in their hair
and rings on their fingers
they burned down the world
but the smoke still lingers

there was a young woman
who ran down the road
when judgment day came
and the sun did explode

the kings on their horses
and the queens on their thrones
are lost in the sand
that flows over their bones

the minstrels who sang
and the jugglers who jugged
lie in the highway
crawled over by bugs

you can call them unlucky
good, indifferent, or bad
but the chances they got
were all that they had

a snake crawls through the grass
a bat sleeps in a cave
they want to be free
and they want to be saved

there is an old woman
who lives in the woods
because people are bad
when they should be good



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