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Ten Fifty-Eight

Double cross
Fingers crossed
A hopeful sign in the sand

Ten Fifty-Seven

He played football
and yet still was
an evil man

Ten Fifty-Six

Waiting by the door

the package never arrived

home imprisonment

Ten Fifty-Five

10:55am.

The old man groaned.

Losing first breath of day.

Ten Fifty-Four

Cutting the quick.

A festering, blinding, stab.

She’s glory dying.

Ten Fifty-Three

Of beans and bread we are made — manna for mankind.

Ten Fifty-Two

Faith in the mind is rendered dumb by prideful ignorance.