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plastic straws

  • Ummama
  • Mar 4, 2021
  • 1 min read

Updated: Mar 12, 2021

looking at the world

through a plastic straw

at only what

can benefit you

drink all the denial you want

but the sky is red & raw

beginning to drip

into oceans that were once blue

your thirst has grown, it can

only be quenched now

by a flood of flames

fueled in surmounting solitude

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