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Poetry

Walleye

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1. March First

Reply to Tucker08087 (Original post)

Mon Jan 10, 2022, 11:03 AM

Jan 2022

Sometimes she can’t help but wonder
What it’s like in the land of the sane,
Where storms are just lightning and thunder
And sunshine breaks through the black pain
Now with no one to take her surrender,
She pulls the plastic up over her head,
Tomorrow’s small headline will render,
Forty-eight year-old homeless woman found dead.

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I Had This [View all] Tucker08087 Jan 2022 OP

March First Walleye Jan 2022 #1

So sad and poignant Tucker08087 Jan 2022 #2

Would you mind... Tucker08087 Jan 2022 #3

Not at all. I would love somebody to hear it. I saw the headline connected it with the woman Walleye Jan 2022 #4

I think we are alike in that way! Tucker08087 Jan 2022 #5

Thank you so much. Walleye Jan 2022 #6