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PUPPET

by  Emotion

Posted: Friday, November 1, 2013
Word Count: 44
Summary: Comparing a puppet to human life controlled by a higher being




The show is over
a lifeless puppet now
to fold and case
in an attic of silence

no longer
the master puppeteer
tweaks and dances
the clothed wood

we are but manakins
we sing and shout
we live we love
our puppeteer he above