The Colder You Get

Penguin
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It’s colder when you’re older
 
 
With your permafrost hands
Of penguin lands,
And black–iced feet
Like iron–cold streets
And a frozen nose of
Kilimanjaro snows,
And icicled ears
Like blizzard spears .

The campfire coals just smolder—
The glacier creeps and
Plucks off the years .

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