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Burning
April 6, 2012
The slow-burning embers
toil endlessly
making sparks
ricochet
I sit beneath them
waiting
for the inevitable
the spark latching on
dissolving me
in fiery snakes of green and blue
Soon
the words of
Dante, Shakespeare, Plato
will be no more
journalists' ideas
on politics, wars, and laws
shall be extinct
the records of heroes
of leaders and dreamers
may dissipate
I am paper
Watch me burn
© Katherine A., San Antonio, TX
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