Wasted
Crushed beer and soda-pop cans
Emptied of their frosted life
Line alleys and highways
Discarded newsprint flutters in breezes
Rustles down deserted Sunday streets
And flies in tiny cyclones
Skeletons of fiberglass and steel
That once tamed four hundred horses lie dead
In heaps of discarded junk
Envelopes of sinew and bone
Reeking of despair and misery
Rummage through yesteryear's memories
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Submitted by ajmiz827 on November 03, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 394 |
Words | 64 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3 |
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