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Benighted

Kurt Philip Behm

The chosen
tone deaf
to their fortune

Musicians
their heads
in the sand

The roadies
eat pizza
still frozen

While Angels
play bass
in the band

Indulgence
the pick
on their fretboard

Entranced
by the lure
of the bong

Benighted
the riffs
play without them

Not going
or coming
— just gone

(The New Room: March, 2024)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 25, 2024

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Scheme AXA BXC BXA XXC XXC XXX XXX DDX X
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 325
Words 67
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 1
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