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Conkers
Ten thousand or more on the wood’s stained carpet: polished eyes, too young yet for the rings they wear.
Staring down a heaven through puzzles of twigs; up at a star, shattered to many by leaves.
These foolish playthings, spellbound as mediums, don’t foresee the games to come, fights to survive.
We will root for them, pigs bewitched by truffles – gouge them out of sockets, get away unseen.
Our pockets will bulge with smooth, cyclopic orbs, as we work this wood together … rob it blind.
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