How Do You Tell?
by
Al Edmunds



Walking in the desert
far from so-called
civilization
I came across some bleached out
bones.

If you are walking in the desert
far from so-called
civilization
how to you tell if the bones are
human
or just some poor dead cow
long ago lost
like all of us?

If you are walking in the desert
far from so-called
civilization
and you start thinking about life
and
death
and
reality
how do you tell?

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