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LEFT BEHIND
Desmond O'Brien
Some child left his imagination
on the curb
and went inside to sleep
me?
I walked my old slow walk
and wondered
who left the rusty bent can
all full of sticks and leaves
and shining stones
so close to the road
as if abandoned?
and wondered
who left the rusty bent can
all full of sticks and leaves
and shining stones
so close to the road
as if abandoned?
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