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Humpty Dumpty
a cannon called Humpty dumpty seated on
a centuries' old wall is set to go off....
you know him from the rhyme,
the big egg shaped androgynous one
glimpsed thru Alice's looking glass bragging
if he fell all the king's men and horses would come etc.
I am humpty dumpty
there are no kings men, no horses
hair line cracks of broken promises,
laws twisted out of shape aimed at this wall
I grew up on, painted live flowers over
and from it dangled peace signs like crosses
and the star of David: this wall
no one will fix is my birth rite
I am a generation
I have never lived anywhere else
kicked out of the womb and
thrust onto it I looked down
and jumped without ever leaving the wall
jumped again and again....fearless
the wall was my safety net, promises to insure it
were made insuring the dream of the wall
I was immortal on it; when
disease struck an army of drugs killed death
for a while....then aimed at me
I was positioned to fall off the wall
and be put back together but
the wall is crumbling beneath me
into the old rhyme where all the kings men, etc.
when I fall a generation will fall with me
nobody will come to put us back together again
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Linda Lerner
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