senilitude



Our old age speaks through
ventriloquists' dummies and
apothecaries.
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Submitted by haiku_artist on May 04, 2021

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Scheme ABC
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 66
Words 9
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3

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