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[New post] Betrayal

Site logo image Ron. posted: "Originally published (Online, 2001) in Conspire (now defunct), but heavily revised for today's FOWC. ---------------[|||]--------------- Betrayal Betrayal is a small gray box on a midnight bedside table. Two plastic tubes hiss, push air, but fail to i" Scrambled, Not Fried

Betrayal

Ron.

May 26

Originally published (Online, 2001) in Conspire (now defunct), but heavily revised for today's FOWC.

---------------[|||]---------------

Betrayal

Betrayal is a small gray box
on a midnight bedside table.

Two plastic tubes hiss,
push air, but fail to inflate
useless hungry lungs.

Late at night they conspire
and I am helpless,
lying in the dark,
listening
to mechanized promises
but hearing only whispered lies.

---------------[|||]---------------
Fandango's One Word Challenge
~ Machine  ~
---------[||]---------

FOWC

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