we sit and blankly

stare at angry flames

that cackle and spit like

disgruntled village elders

whose toothless gobbets

sizzle madly on the hearth

…---…

we glumly consider how

our world began to eat itself,

gluttonously consuming the

bounteous fruit we’d

nurtured in the rich

alluvium of our tolerance

…---…

we gorged ourselves on

the nutrients of eq...

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