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Folksy


the way the error message keeps a straight face                 that actions have

consequences            parents their children, bombs

and the folks behind them                                               just a thought

and their generations before that               time inching up

                       ‘And it doesn’t stop.           None of it

               stops, ever,’

the weak sun above              dry air         doesn’t make it

any lighter     a truck peeps, beat and pipe                            each day a fresh entry

       to the world, Indian summer the occasion

to lie again kicking out