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ROSES
<p>Roses are red</p><p>Like our eyes</p><p>And skies</p><p>Birds without feathers</p><p>Nor fathers</p><p>We're flockless</p><p>Flying free</p><p>And fleeing trees</p><p>In circles </p><p>But pointless </p><p><br/></p><p>You've made a couch off</p><p>Our family tree </p><p>Hang us in wooden boxes</p><p>Don't frame us</p><p>We've lost nests</p><p>So when we perch</p><p>On your nets </p><p>And stain your merch </p><p>Please, let us rest</p><p><br/></p><p>We boil the soil</p><p>For precious rocks</p><p>To create designs</p><p>That chain us</p><p>Don't you see the signs </p><p>We become feeble</p><p>Thirty years before</p><p>Our first wrinkle </p><p><br/></p><p>Fishes on farms</p><p>We're hot and hurt</p><p>We've hit Our Water-LOOw</p><p>Masks everywhere </p><p>Hands up</p><p>We're coughed up</p><p>With bad eyes</p><p>Still broke</p><p>With more smoke</p><p>We're now catching coal</p><p>Water falls</p><p>And tears off Joy</p><p>We can't check-up </p><p><br/></p><p>The sky's now the starting point </p><p>Because we've scorched earth</p><p>Breaking grounds</p><p>That crack walls</p><p>Now the earth quakes</p><p>So we can stand tall</p><p><br/></p><p>Roses are red</p><p>Before their dead</p>
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