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The Death of Words

Peter Magliocco

Words left lies of lint
in pockets of petty thieves

purloining the parade lyrics.
Effigies of rhyme parted before it

with a flotilla of winter pentameters.
Riflemen shot odes from poetry trees

while generals saluted
dying figures of speech.

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