Red Canyon Petrglyph, Detail
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I want to grow up in a cemetery like a flower
I don’t want to pick flowers at the cemetery
I don’t want to grow up and I don’t want to die
I don’t want to collect corpses for the sake of the cemetery
I don’t want to be a finger raised to the sky
I don’t want to have a gun pointed at my head
I don’t want to be the target or the hunter
My body is asking to escape the cage of air
My soul asks to escape from the cage of the body
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Mykyta Ryzhykh
Review by Jared Pearce
The first set of lines here for me is a fine encapsulation of living in the early part of the 21st Century.