all work



The hard dirt is my home

This plastic bag is my fortress

And I, the King of Craft

Watch as I turn misery to apathy

and tears into text

The best of friends have lent me silence

and I matched their bets

As I lay in my dirt bed

I shape the veins in my hands into complex threads

I simply hope I age with grace

and not a mess of ill regrets.
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Written on September 02, 2023

Submitted by T.L.D.Remnant on November 21, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme X X X X X X A X X X A
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 347
Words 83
Stanzas 11
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1

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