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Poetry: Hunger

The mother wipes the sweat from her brow

She cradles her child close to her breast


The baby cries along with mothers tears

The dusty surround, close to her make shift tent

The wind blows her mattered hair


She prays the grain supply will drop from the sky

This is hunger

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