Cemetary

Sit back
Shocked wife,
Drowned man,
Hulking soldier
Now sightless.

Sit back and
Examine your debt,
Whatever it was.

Behind graves
In drunken peril,
Ourselves,
Foolish
Sheets of polished
Marble.

Words,
Bird’s inscription,
Railcar scrawl.

Look towards Venus
Then dart towards
Ribbon of highway.

Shepards advance;
Soldiers stampede;
Tense and discolored
To call their flock
Home.

From the open ceiling
Trickles damp language
Where daddy waits with
A story

Worry not,
Sleep ascends
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