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funeral poem

a thousand silent years ago
a gleam of gold in gloom and gray
under dusky laurel leaf
very well, you liberals
shades of night were falling fast
candles toppling sideways in tomato cans
skies they were ashen and sober
a blue-black nubian plucking oranges
it was the autumn of the year

 



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