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Gun Lover

In this dream you cradle
Your rifle in your loving arms...
And like a newborn child
You rock ever so gently away
Time spent bullets under pillows
Yellow like tiny teeth.
Live rounds behind glass frames
Down your hallway

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Editing Stage: Editing - rough draft

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Country/Region: us montana

Favorite Poets: ee cummings, dylan thomas, richard hugo, denise levertov, dr seuss, sylvia plath, allen ginsberg, most of the beat poets, sandberg, burgess, poe, i could go on and on and on

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c lynn brooks

5 years 2 months ago

tonebone

This sounds like someone with ptsd as I knew someone with same
love the line like tiny yellow teeth