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One Shot


In spite of all your riches

you eschew what prophets do

Basilicas you build to self

with time but empty pews

 

Wealth deadly suicidal

when wielded as a gun

Whose target sits between your eyes

with one shot zero-sum

 

(Dreamsleep: November, 2023)

 

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