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So... tired. Dx This is from an exercise, but it fell apart before I was done and I couldn't put it back together. Enjoy if you can. I just want some sleep. @A@



Round Sixteen

The hibiscus was "too gaudy" for you,
thistle-woman.
Well that's all right.

But

it struck you like an arrow
(didn't it?)
when you found out that the distant roaring
in the night was trucks on a highway;

you slathered on a laugh but
in your heart you needed
beasts across the horizon
that you couldn't see.

When the whirlwinds struck Babylon
our house fell in and girl
we could not linger there

because baiting lines with gold yields
nothing: now ain't that anticlimactic?