Bucolic *

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Bricks that taste of earth and mud-

I licked them, it was a dare

The stale beer and puke and toasts-

"Here's to life without a care!"


All my dreams inevitably lead

To growing white hairs beneath the linden tree

My brother left, with haste, with speed

Complaining that or else, he'd never be free


(He was right)

He wasn't

(He was right)

He wasn't


What might have been ambition

Is tangled in tall, unchecked grass

Buried in freshly tilled soil

Smeared on bird-poo stained glass


It doesn't feel like a prison, sitting alone because

Your friends all dance in the nearest town

The formula of response to current events-

"Those big guns in city just need to calm down."


(They don't)

They do

(They don't)

They do


Enviably idyllic.

Truly bucolic.


(But now I'm old, and I can never be free.)

Shut up

(But now I'm old, and I can never be free.)

SHUT UP!


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A/N: Attempted to incorporate a word I recently learned into a poem.


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