home is just past the truck stop

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sunlight syrup drips down through
the soil I am buried beneath.
eyes searching through the cracks.
wind swifter than the cottontail,
biting back like a rattlesnake.
i'll be polite to wane off these scorpions,
i fear you'll sting me.

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