meditations on decline

sunday morning

starched white intruder

food lukewarm tasteless gr██l

vitals and go█d memory tablets

newspaper from the future

in wrinkled hands disconnected

window's light is all wr█ng

not dancing on the wheat fields

prepare to welcome guests

amish farm table familiar to my touch

heirloom furniture t██ close

four corners closing in

peeling wallpaper calling out

my name, one of m█ny

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thumb and finger pull back layers

as if turning bible pages

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how could █ war be great

no more peace on earth

2\buttermilk floral spanish flu

jaundiced child’s face

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except farm and family

fed dandelion roots

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sepia t█ned oxygen in the lungs

prairie sky gone d███

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wrapped in blood soaked rags

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