Crickets in the Morning

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Crickets in the Morning

“It has always seemed to me that autumn crickets are especially loud.”  —anonymous

The politics of anguish
Clatters in the voices
Of the masses
That would sing in dawn
Among the grasses.

When you hear them
In the morning
You wonder what
They did all night.

And if they prayed for morning.