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Time, Changes.

Poems from The Garden

By Gord HaggertyPublished 4 years ago 1 min read
Time, Changes.
Photo by Daniel Gutko on Unsplash

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Grab a torch, same hand,

Have fun with your vote:

Another hand a sword,

It opens a can of corn.

Fake hammer throw,

Judges, like rabbits,

Run back to their holes.

Rather than face the day,

The code and its ghosts.

Instead,

They make jokes, they make shows,

They make notes, that, of course,

Exclude their track record of control.

That dirt road, saddled by war,

Addled by the hammers thrown,

Fools who took no land unknown,

Who speak a language encoded,

Take advantage of the locals.

What is wealth, cash of course?

But it's also a canvass of bone,

Grass in the mouth of a mud horse.

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About the Creator

Gord Haggerty

Founder of the Globalchalet, Royal Conservatory Certified Guitarist, Self-publisher, PC Building Expert, Creative Cloud Amateur. I am also Barrie's #1 poet, but don't ask Victoria Butler.

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