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Dinosaurs of Pain

by Joseph Ceravolo

Joseph Ceravolo

There are no dinosaurs
but man suffers still more.
Morning, roaring
tiger of trying to keep.

In the engine silo,

there are no dinosaurs
of pain that are hurried
enough: Morning Star!




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I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

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