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Monday Morning Mourning Clothes

James Kirkpatrick

The perfect fit for working woes,
Gruffer than ascetic’s throat,
His Monday morning mourning clothes.

Dull to hide the dust that snows
On labors’ scuffled quest for groat,
The perfect fit for working woes.

Like the birds who, soaring, crow
Cloaked in blue-black overcoats,
His Monday morning mourning clothes

Hedge against imagined foes,
A downy guard against their gloat.
The perfect fit for working woes.

And as the cart behind him slows
Dragging hours’ steady rote,
His Monday morning mourning clothes

The barely breathing breezes blow.
And stitches frayed as feathers float...
The perfect fit for working woes,
His Monday morning mourning clothes.

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Written on 2022

Submitted by James_Kirkpatrick on December 13, 2023

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Scheme AbC abA dxC abA abC dbAC
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 663
Words 121
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4
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