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Retirement (Free verse) by Jeremi B. Handrinos
Stumps with a barreness as far as the eyes could see
High pitched whine followed by bloody curdling screams
Not a hint of green, or life, or love, or daylight
The Saw mill stands alone on a grey slate precipice
No more men or bad jokes over black coffee & timecards
The ghost of development now's automated by depravation
The roof's covered by wingless sleeping birds, preening
And ahead lies a suburbia fashioned from worker's flesh
Water tower reads "Forest of Modernization", Hatesville
Winnebagos
Pontoons
Jetskys
Watercrafts
Swimmingpools
And filthy bird baths
Audaciously uncentered
between the mailbox &
inevitability.
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