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Coal Black

A Miner’s Lament

By Andrew C McDonaldPublished 9 months ago 1 min read
Coal Black
Photo by Amir Arabshahi on Unsplash

Once more to the mine

Dig, work, suffer, cough, black lung

Is this truly all?

Senryu

About the Creator

Andrew C McDonald

Andrew McDonald was a 911 dispatcher for 30 yrs with a B.S. in Math (1985). He served as an Army officer 1985 to 1992, honorably exiting a captain.

https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Keys-Andrew-C-McDonald-ebook/dp/B07VM843XL?ref_=ast_author_dp

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  • Marie381Uk 9 months ago

    Nice one, that is all sadly true

  • Mother Combs9 months ago

    This could be applied to life.

  • Paul Stewart9 months ago

    Another fine haiku, sir! Well done and it reminded me of the horrors of stories of that kind of work and of the video for the song Sonne by the band Rammstein.

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