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The cull of clouds
pours over beggars’ hands,
those who lose their eyes,
those who finish without lines. Pain
must be oblivious in the company
of so much living, nothing
but vapors in the sky
as cemeteries buckle,
artists cool and change,
city paints run dry.
Who is to blame
for fruits of apathy?
Humid souls as these
gather like burning candles
to offer murmured prayers.
Cities hunger for a
touch of winsomeness.
Clouds beg their wings
to leap into puddles down below
which tug much harder at the ground
than you might think.