#MastoPrompt #gunk
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#poem #poetry

Over sufficient time
all things tend to corrode
No handiwork so fine
Protection e'er bestowed
That stayed the passing hour
From showering with dust
Or turned the fresh milk sour
Or filigree to rust

Savour the chippèd things
The dogeared and the frayed
The dusty, marked with dings
The flawed and the unmade
For we, as with this junk,
Will tear and snag and break
Will foul up with the gunk
Sloughed from time's fetid lake