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Locked Away


Walking across

a college campus

classes done till Fall

I hear those lessons

never taught

on winds that truth recalls

The questions that we

used to prize

now locked away in files

To favor dogma’s

jagged edge

— in deaf self-serving bile

 

(Villanova University: July, 2025) 

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