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BIRDS
Birds fly through the sky.
Black against gray clouds
Though they’re bright
Red,
Yellow,
Blue
Up close if you stop and look.
Robins pecking for worms after the rain,
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Loves
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The Recipe for American Fascism: One Scoop Media, Two Scoops Propaganda, and Discard Education
In my tenth grade English class, we read Fahrenheit 451, and we were asked to answer this question: how did Ray Bradbury's predictions hold up? It was an intentionally broad question that once stumped me.
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When the boys grew up on sun and waves
The sun didn’t kiss these boys
It hugged them
The way you would with your best friend before
Leaving for a long time
It hugged them and
It made their skin the color of a caramel
And their hair like the sand
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Two Birds and No Stone
Don’t kill my birds.
Tommy pays taxes.
April runs a side hustle selling cursed bath bombs on Etsy.
They have dreams.
They have a 401k.
They just bought a tiny house in a haunted forest
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To Be A Pisces
Reflected back at me,
I see myself through the sea.
My traits written in the stars,
I think back to the planet far from mars.
Where dreams weave themselves into reality.
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Life Plans
A single spark, a fleeting breath,
This wild, precious life, defying death.
I'll chase the sun on windswept shore,
And seek the truths I can't ignore.