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Entries to Express It In Eight from September 2020 to the present .
The number of poems enforces the use of blog format with ten poems per page.
April 24, 2022 at 4:15pm
April 24, 2022 at 4:15pm
#1031291
One Flew Over

The irony being
there is nothing mad about the cuckoo
that builds no nest
and leaves parenting
to more programmed birds,
preferring to rejoice,
to sing the coming summer,
and seek immortality in Swiss clocks.



Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 04.24.22
Prompt: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.



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