twenty-one hundred
the water is pretty toxic here
but the children
seem to have adapted
the ones with years of knowledge
are not faring so well
their numbers dwindling
by the day
the crops should be better
next year
thanks to all the dying
without question
the mountains are shrinking
the price of gold
going higher & higher
january two thousand twenty-three
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