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Bernardo Wade

Don’t bury the dead

47, New Poetry by Bernardo Wade

I’ve been                         broken
                 boy turned                  to drink
left to rust                                 family-damp
       with prayer                      I wish
             he would just                                stop
digging in
            graveyards.
We don’t bury                                   the dead.
               We remember   the sky
likes to fall
                       down the throat.
               We call it            
…

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