Three Poems by Kevin Chesser
TRUCK
A tough old crawler
leaking prison ink -
full of blown apart babies’
dolls and muttering bricks.
TRUCK
A tough old crawler
leaking prison ink -
full of blown apart babies’
dolls and muttering bricks.
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