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  Stephen Jarrell Williams  
   
 
     
     

Bad Weather

It's too late,
our spines bent.

We should stoop the rest of our lives,
but we didn't get here from being wimps.

We can crack our backs back into place.
Just a little pain.

There... Now let's walk,
looking over what needs to be done.

There's a lot of crooks in high places.
They need to be yanked down.

They'll call us a mob.
Many of us will die.

Our last breaths
inflating the wind into a hurricane.

Bad weather for some time,
cleansing the country into a shine again.

     
     
     
     
 
   
     
 
 
       
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