Saturday, November 30, 2024

Compadre

 COMPADRE


ox and farmer

dragging plough

trudge across a field

keeping just a step ahead

of the horseman's scythe


generalissimo and landlord

sowing promise and praise

usurp the labourer's grain

tilting in time

the horseman's scale


guerilla and guardsman

exchanging gunfire

rend the land

harvesting carrion

all and only for the horseman



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