Typewriter Series #2994 by Tyler Knott Gregson.Fractures from...

Typewriter Series #2994 by Tyler Knott Gregson

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Fractures from the fighting

from long before it,

cracks in the veneer of us

how skilled we were as

painters, couldn’t hardly see

the lines.

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There is a limit to the water

we can hold, a weight

that defined us,

granted trickle to prevent the flood.

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Enough now, come forth the landslide,

ring out those high bells before they ring out

no more.

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This could carve out and separate,

this could divide and segregate,

dam walls heaving like lungs choking for air,

like eight minutes forty seven seconds

too long without it.

Those fissures spread,

those splits brought by slave ship

and whip, and I want this country

soaking wet and shivering,

I want what we were submerged.

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Before the flood, let us swim

to one side together, let us stand

and stare across the deep waters.

Let us link arms and sing out

the song of solidarity, let us wave goodbye

to all those too lost and afraid

to join us.

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-Tyler Knott Gregson- (at Helena, Montana)

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