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Printed from https://writing.com/main/books/entry_id/939162-Tanzania-two-peaks-of-Kilimanjaro
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Rated: 18+ · Book · Contest Entry · #1912256
a descent into poetry insanity
#939162 added August 5, 2018 at 3:51pm
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Tanzania: two peaks of Kilimanjaro
two neighbor mountains
(as close as conjoined twins)
fell out—over a prank
that one took too far.

the other (he has a temper,
that one) replied with
sticks and stones
(to break the bones),
beating the first until
he was a crumpled remnant
of the prankster he used to be—

we hear the tale and shake
our heads—surely they
must become unneighbors
one in jail, the other healing
from such wounds.

no, for when mountains argue,
they stand together still.
one broken down, the other dormant
but still fuming with temper,
ready to explode.

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