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A burp

Douglas Noel

A Burp

At the other end of the street
There is a car and someone is blowing its horn.

Green slime-worms crawling in and out from under and over it.
What happened?

Street fissures from volcanic eruption, open smoke, green fumes with glowing embers all around the car.
Who are they?

Two lovers thought to enfold
Trapped by earth's burp and imprisoned
In their embrace.
Douglas Noel
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Submitted by dougnoel on July 27, 2020

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XX XA XX XAXX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 382
Words 67
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 4
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