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Junkyard Blues

Micah Thorstenson

Life took me to the junkyard
Where the calm seemed without opposition
And in between unhurried tranquility
Appeared scenes of abandonment
Appeared wrinkled lines of wreckage
Years of use and
Misuse
Only to be cast aside at
The
Last
Second
Given away before it was too late
Before we were stuck with our problems

The dead here show more effects
Of life
Than any graveyard
Broken mirrors
Faded paint
Worn upholstry
Engines stripped from their souls

Humans gut differently
We take not what we
Need
But everything
And leave the shell for the next
Stealing us to sit eternally under the hot sun
Once loved but now taken
For other’s benefits
And I think
It’s good to be in this yard
Because almost everything
Has been taken from me
But
Thoughts of life

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