Where Wormwood Grows
The river snakes, through decay and neglect with steeples that host a faithless collect.
Where Wormwood Grows Black carbon on the highway divider. Over the decades the built them wider. Bumper to bumper trucks and buses, Here is the Camelot where everyone cusses. Asphalt pathways crisscross the grasslands. Remora billboards advertise mass brands. Around the refineries that perfume your nose, below an empty sky the wormwood grows. They ca…
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