The Bluestone Review 2025

Children’s Section

Dinner At 5 Isabella Ference

Plates are placed All shiny and clean The white table cloth Set for the feast of the wanted, And the welcome. The napkins are folded. Folded in equal parts, but uneven edges, An illusion of equality. The use to clean a mouth Should not act so highly, That it might be stained by the brown lips. Frowned upon by the conceited Mind the three different forks One for unity One for liberty One for Equality How deep can they be thrust Into the hopeless chicken carcass Lifeless laid on the table by the stewards

The carrion of our democracy Mind the three different spoons. One for solidarity

One for rights One for peace

One engraved with an I One engraved with an E One engraved with a D They have been placed But in the wrong order

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