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    DIASPORA SONNETS

    Sep 01, 2022 2 minutes
    OLIVER DE LA PAZ

    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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