Pearl Walden

Who does give an F?
The sky is blue
The sun shines bright
The moon and stars
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White cloud puff will-o-the-wisps
Boomerang geese honking up high
Pink grapefruit sunsets blushing
Over sleeping fields of sneezy grass
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Sweltering in the afternoon,
Soaking up the silent sunlight,
Strains sound softly soothing,
Suites on strings serenading
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What is the key to the secret safe?
How to unlock the bolted door?
The code remains within its crypt.
Volatile lies remain taboo.
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Sudden flash, crash, uproar.
Skin burns, eyes water.
Blinded by the toxins,
Stagger away to the roadside.
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Threnody: farewell to the me I used to be
to days of sun and daisy chains
and never-ending cups of tea
for joy will never return again
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Valor: not in swooping form the rooftop
in mask and cape endowed with
superpowers nor wielding of the
pen in swordlike self-delusion
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Little bundle of feathers in a fat, gloved hand
Your family is perched in the trees, cooing,
Around your leg they have placed a silver band
While your cousins all wonder what you are doing.
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