The Roses in the Tinted Glass
Location
Indonesia
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Let us deceive the 18th century;
turn scrap metal into jewels.
Set chicks free until man and
cockerel become indistinguishable.
Let them run hot headed until
mothers’ cries-
dire, drenched, desperate
of the working class
become our tocsin sound.
We won’t wilt because our mothers
have not known beyond; won’t sleep
because the only fathers we know
founded a broken system.
We are roses: radiant, ready, real, and rattled.
We are preserved in the resin of greed.
It is here where we embody the last of
our remains- the fuel of the attack.
This poem is about:
Our world
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