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The Unclaimed
March 2, 2017
So, thats it?
The total sum of a forgotten existence
The accumilated life
Of the Unclaimed and Unknown
Reduced to dust
Thrust into the fire and
racked and crushed like coal
Blended into ash
Placed in a tiny box and
stuck upon a shelf
Like misplaced autobiographies left in a dank basement
Is that,
Where all the forgotten go?
© Sean C., Princeton, IL
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I watched the documentary A Certain Kind of Death and this poem is inspired by that.