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Stummy Stew

Charles Michael Craven

the witches stirring their
brew in my stomach
don’t understand my pain,
their good - my bad
their dinner - my shit.
or they get my pain and
are just bitches like all the
rest,
cooking for an unwelcomed
banquet audience -
a buffet fit for a
gypsy.

gurgling, turning, smoldering
stew of inner death
just go away.

I’ll refuse you ingredients
for the poison if I must,
just a Friday morning for most
as World War 1 through 8 play out
on the battlefield of a once youthful colon
turned black through experience.

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