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Rated: 18+ · Book · Philosophy · #2227028
Entries to The Daily Poem Contest.
#1078863 added October 24, 2024 at 3:14pm
Restrictions: None
Deserters
Title says it all.


Deserters

What, leaving so soon?
red on black sign exclaims,
perhaps indignantly;
the theatre dark but vivid,
still breathing with the crowd.

No truck with furtive leavers here,
ducked down and sneaking through,
yet trailed by muttered protest:
“Hey, mind my foot!”
and shameful pleas for pardon.



Line count: 10
Free verse
For The Daily Poem, 10.24.24
Prompt: As per illustration.
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