Excellent A protest against imminent domain It's Our Cake Not Yours by Henry King Sonnet Poetry Contest contest entry

We made our cake and we will eat it too I speak belligerently at a stance a spoken word in jest is never true nor is withholding my cold steely glance The tools are ours it is the job we sell the mixings are ours and not from dark theft sift beat bake in hot oven for a spell those who covet ours must depart bereft You should never take what you know we own our cake just a metaphorical phrase If you ask nicely with true smile and tone words from the heart not in some teasing ways friendly with value absolutely true some of ours could be shared with yours and you Recognized Author Notes Small profitable tax paying businesses on high land were seized to create a storm drain holding pond to protect property in a well known flood plain.

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