the old tractor
THE BORED BARD May 2021
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the ignition flickers
the engine hacks
then cranks into a slow
clap clap clap clap clap
the exhaust pipe
runs smokey moist
its casing dripping
dripping wet
the retiring clutch judders
like an overloaded ferry
newly detached from its moorings
rising falling
side to side
the mammoth is tamed
at least for now
chugging towards extinction
and there
in some corner
of a lonely field
rusting in rain
blasted by the sun
a robin tilts it head
notices the big wheel
and wonders if it will
ever turn again
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