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A Million Broken Birds

May 11, 2011
By soccerworld BRONZE, Bernardsville, New Jersey
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A giant tail the color of grass
spurting out a million wings
twirled to a tip
a round jar of a million broken birds
yellow wounds tough and smooth
eaten with smiles

The author's comments:
In this poem I am describing a fruit. People are supposed to guess what it is. The poem is about a pineapple.
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