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Little Kings
ISSUE #1
Author: jacksteele
Little Kings
Author: jacksteele
ISSUE #1
No Plagiarism!VMlcHZxGPX3L7VpGwz6Pposted on PＥNAＮＡ

One summer midday 

that boy in the tree tunnel

white tee, orange shorts, 

sneakers crunching the gravel

the grasshopper road, and zing, 

the springy bugs zing 

in spontaneous arcs all at once, 

raining down

and their royal form captivated 

his brown eyes964Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoAKHjZL6rk
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Boy netted one with 

his cotton shirt, his basket 

he ran back home 

but it had been smushed 

yellow-green964Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2gVFu7s0br
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I remember thinking 

I killed a little king964Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYhywMWbt6K
964Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ58HHbSK08a

The grasshopper road

he ran back and retried

walking so carefully 

and gingerly this time

but it had been smushed

dismembered legs and all964Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡswRRwuTGG2
964Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWDxz3FR9K5

So it was right there and then 

that I realized with despair

on that hot and isolated 

grasshopper road

that it was better to leave

little things well alone964Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEmi6yazX3d
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Because I remember

I killed two little kings964Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSm53OQXCup
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And they can be broken

faster than a dropped egg

yellow-green guts inside out

figured they're untouchable

vulnerable kings964Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoksc37vmL5
964Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw5aXytPyKN

Because I remember

my brown eyes traumatized

by their destroyed form

crushed to waste

they were supposed to be

springy bugs that zing964Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeNYgy5gT9R
964Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMsi8873Z2G

I try to remember

sneakers crunching the gravel

orange shorts, white tee,

in that tree tunnel that boy

caught in the zinging rain

on the grasshopper road964Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHDNSd0BxHN
​964Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGOnmnBDTxj

I never went back 

I never belonged

it's not a place for me

but the grasshopper road

never let go of me

216.73.217.69

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Little Kings
Poetry
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Tragedy
Last updated: Jul 2, 2016
Total word count: 203
Total reading time: 1 Minute
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