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This Pandora’s box

This Pandora’s box

is being emptied,

fearful angry ravens

fly out screaming

and my son says

that sounds normal.

And really,

that is how a raven sounds

when it is freed from a trap

that it made for itself

without realizing,

so it screams with some shame

and bravado in flight

and then there is an echo of raucous noise

and then there is an empty box

with no lid.

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