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by Terrence Aym

Created on: August 18, 2009

Caterpillar Nightmare

A kinetic poem

The caterpillars attacked last night.
They came in dreams -
Many-legged things -
Like a runny watercolor
Squirming on canvas.

Caterpillar boozle wimps
Creeping 'mongst the toads,
Grinning things devoid of wings
Spewed across blind roads.
Spiraling visions of scarlet
Brazzles cowering in pit sewers,
While congressmen roamed the land
And voters hung on skewers.

Caterpillars attacked last night,
Many-legged things.
(They had no wings.)

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