Poetry: Prejudice - by Laurie Beth

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by Laurie Beth

Created on: September 08, 2008

Autumn

Leaves fall:
Generations of colors and shapes
Bend in the breeze
and recoil.
Red from yellow
Yellow from brown
Cackling
Conspiring
They fall.
Until an old man
Patched and scarred
Merely rakes his yard.
And against their will,
they are joined once again.

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