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Promises
by Angela Yuriko Smith
The road calls—
an asphalt River of Styx.
The lives it claims are legion.
.
Human, animal, insect…
Death is death. The flat expanse promises
new vistas, horizons, progress.
.
It delivers on all promises.
Sometimes the new horizon
is in the afterlife.
.
Fiction © Copyright Angela Yuriko Smith
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com.
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Angela Yuriko Smith is an American poet, author and co-publisher of Space and Time magazine, a publication that has been printing speculative fiction, art and poetry since 1966. Together we build a poem as a community each month. Visit “Exquisite Corpse” at SpaceandTime.net to submit.
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Cool poem.
There’s so painful truth told here – such an effective poem – bravo!