Sunrise 2/24/24 *

Kennewick

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this sunrise tastes
like a fat lip
from getting punched
the night before

like an ashtray
kiss half asleep
in the early
futility

of a morning
you have to take
with tap water
and two aspirin

and this sunrise
feels like the end
of the bootcamp
of the winter

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