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Rouge And Gray

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So much time has passed     & time is a hooligan run wild     littering the streets,     squeezing toothpaste at the wrong end     shredding clothes with a razor blade.     Time is never called into account    -     lives like Peter Pan     in a flying abode above it all     scot-free, the surly bandit.     A perilous acquisition    -     tiny pinpricks above the eye-brows     crows' feet      -    all too visible rending of     fleshy corners bulbed     to puffiness.     Red-handed,     I caught time     his knife in Youth once more     still-water decay,     brackish trouble-maker     with tint of rouge and gray.     This school-yard tough     still picking on the corner weakling.     braggadocio and upstart     spoiling for a fight     first elbow up,     each foot in a fray.

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