Cherry Bomb



"And everyone was drunk"
broken glass lining the floor
liquored bodies slung over furniture
words slosh and swirl around the room
loud and incisive.
swallow
down
the pain
and
flush it
down the
toilet
tomorrow
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCDEFGHIJKLF
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 196
Words 35
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 13

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