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A success story

Chris Pearson 1977 (Winnipeg)

A success story
The try that made it
The sperm to find the egg
The tale of every life
That was ever alive
For a little while
All the want
That meets the needs
Plunges deep into the meat
That bleeds and eats
Licks clean the taste of defeat
Feeding on the weak
The way things are
Supposed to be
Who can turn the other cheek
Any direction is just as bleak
The serrated glare of Hell's heat
Cuts to bone with Heaven's teeth
All this talk is cheap
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Submitted on March 20, 2016

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Scheme ABCDEFGHIJIKLAKKIMN
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 424
Words 89
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 19
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