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Equilibrium

Tony Kruska 1988 (New York)

We're so off balance don't know up from down
The grass in the air and the sky on the ground
If we stand on our feet instead of our head
The world will stay green before it turns red
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Written on May 20, 2022

Submitted by tnykrsk on May 20, 2022

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Scheme ABCC
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 181
Words 39
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
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