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Printed from https://www.writing.com/main/books/entry_id/878540-Live-Bait
by Joy
Rated: 18+ · Book · Drama · #1253431
Poetry in April -- in celebration
#878540 added April 6, 2016 at 8:55am
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Live Bait
Live bait on the hook
line sinks, lure dissents
wriggling, writhing
time a toxin
misfortune tempts tragedy
eat to be eaten,
brutal, vicious
like Jalapeno peppers in fragments
or horseradish attacking eyes
staying in sinuses for days

I think I’ll swear off lunch


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prompt: bitterness

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