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Joan Of Arc
Mason Farr

She lays with only soldiers,
then slays those lonely soldiers.
She calls herself Joan of Arc. This
Spider, taking trinkets in the darkness
of Paris in the winter, barren.
Their blood will start to splinter there in
the cold and misty morning.
To leave their mothers mourning.
She wonders about how many
Crosses in the cemetery
She has caused.
Sons’ lives lost.

Though she isn’t proud of her linen throne,
it’s the best way to bring the boys back home.