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Poor Puppet

July 24, 2011
By rahrahryn SILVER, Exeter, Other
rahrahryn SILVER, Exeter, Other
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Favorite Quote:
"Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent." - Sherlock Holmes


Each jerk and spring of the strings
breaks further wooden limbs.
Each crack, division, along mahogany design
grants fragments and damage evaluation.

Crow! Crow for help in your tragedy,
you silent puppet, mouth all wide
and wooden: like your casket.
Gaping, gapping, dirt-noise.

Your swift understanding damns you,
your intelligence - harms you.
God bless those men He made with sentience,
God bless those ones He sold
to Life, our great Puppet-Master,
and Player of us all.

It's evident
when the strings twist and crawl,
that some poor bast**d is fighting.
And we know, we know: Poor Puppet,

he's a lost soul.

The author's comments:
That hopelessness you feel when Life keeps dealing you bad cards.

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