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Dearly Bought


Wielded 

like a

loaded gun

His phone

was thrusted

forth

 

Proof

of what

I knew 

was false

Refusing

all

discourse

 

Armed

with but

an empty 

tweet

Chosen

by a

bot

 

His mind

was trapped 

inside a myth

Whose fiction

dearly

— bought

 

(Rosemont College: April, 2025)

 

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