But I should have liked a little more blood
To show they were taking me seriously.
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Tagged: alternate versions, dark humor, mythology, U. A. Fanthorpe
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Advice to a Prophet 0
When you come, as you soon must, to the streets of our city,
Mad-eyed from stating the obvious,
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: environment, nature, post-apocalyptic, Richard Wilbur, social commentary, war