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Queue and Ache

  • 12-08-2009 08:45PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,771 ✭✭✭


    Skin leathery, yellowed and tarred.
    Backs bent, worn and curved.
    Stooped figures, warped with time:
    Cautious, pensive trudges forth.
    Voices call out numbers over and over.
    They wait accordingly, unhappily,
    Yet well-trained.
    Well, used to being
    Paid off in breadcrumbs
    As they nibble and nark
    While time tumbles by
    And they
    Crumble away.


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