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Poems

The way

2 March 2024

9:00 AM

2 March 2024

9:00 AM

Another week gone by in the pub
means time called on someone else
as if the reaper’s too lazy to aim
higher than the fermented windfalls.


The regulars are sad but secretly glad
it’s not them in the pine overcoat
as they discuss at length how hard
it is to drive to that new crematorium.


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