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among those sleeping
half-drowning from
the deceit delivered
lungs so full
that they move as
trees heavy with leaves
in a weak wind
knee-deep and mired
in the filth
it’s hard
to remember
what it was
like before
but even
what it was like
still wasn’t
any better
it was just
easier
to ignore
the poverty
the anger
and ignorance
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The weight, the heaviness of the images, the central idea, and structure pull me down, down, down the page to be clobbered by the last three lines.