Summer or winter,
No matter the season I
Sweat on the subway
You ask, "How are you?"
"I don't know how, but I am."
"How are you?" I ask.
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Autumn trees weeping
Shedding orange tears, pleading
"But why must you leave?"
A replacement queen
Full of royal jelly, the
Matriarch restored
Pentasyllabic
Seven syllables sandwiched
Five more to finish