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Post-Apocalyptic Market Day
📜 Poetry

Post-Apocalyptic Market Day

Poem By Kenneth E. Baker

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Jun 18, 2023
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An arrow points, sharp, decisive
toward the slaughterhouse,
manure smell lightly laced with fear
rides on the wind that quietly, persistently,
attempts to keep us from our
blood-soaked goal.

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