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May 8, 2018
By chandlerpulvy7 GOLD, Hartland, Wisconsin
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The sands of beaches formally pure.
Immense blue skies, no longer clear.
Old newspapers and trash,
crumpled and thrown in the grass.
I’m told stars were once bright
and fluorescent through the night.
Now, these stories fail to be true, as
pollution obscures our view.

© Lydia N., Greenfield, IN

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