Untitled / Karli Woods
The world is painted with dirty realism
wildlife is naked and scarce
splashed in a dabble of hungry grey
withering away the colors we breathe.
Alberta is spilled in crude oil
an accidental stain,
an indelible blemish
a brushstroke cannot amend.
Geopolitics is an abstract painting
divided with violent
political brushstrokes
infringed lines without peacemaking
vibrant, loud, fearful, perplexed,
a strangled repressed pretzel
leaving the world
in strange ambiguity
Long white brushstrokes are plastered
to wipe-out humankind,
a faceless earth
with hollow vision
instead,
a black hole has eaten,
the earth.
The last crisp leaf has fallen,
and slowly exhaled, until
it hit the dying earth.
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