The City Falls



The urban sprawls.
The "tagger" scrawls.
The rubbish hauls.
The maggot crawls.
The harlot trawls.
The bandit calls.
The neighbor brawls.
The vicious mauls.
The traffic stalls.
The edgy galls.
The toddler squalls.
The parent palls.
The frosty shawls.
The tetchy awls.
The servant thralls.
The critic spalls.
The city falls.
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

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Characters 306
Words 51
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 17

Wallace Dean LaBenne

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