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by Rhyssa
Rated: 18+ · Book · Contest Entry · #1912256
a descent into poetry insanity
#914467 added June 30, 2017 at 10:36pm
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China: the terracota army of the first emperor of China
can they be toy soldiers
when an emperor calls?
no green stamped army
for his burial—
eight thousand different faces
guard the east,
each one unique
in clay serenity.
buried in mercury
and the screams of the living—
they face the dawn,
ready for two thousand years
to march, at their emperor’s call.

all the king’s horses.
all of his men.

line count: 15

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