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DIASPORA SONNETS

Diaspora Sonnet 26

The old men drink their spritzers and gossip
under awnings. Red hued and blustery,

like two roosters on the side of a road.
Skyward they crane their necks and laugh, sometimes

they wonder about kings and future kings
and how the muscles peer from their taut skin.

Laugh lines orwhich. His wrinkles pick their own trajectory.

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