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# Brokedown Palace
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/brokedown-palace/
- Published: 2021-12-22T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-12-22T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: we're living in a brokedown palace destroyed neither by hate nor malice but by the turning of the clock no key to wind those gears and lock we watch it as it falls apart reflecting it, with meager art and searching fo...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

we're living in a brokedown palace  
destroyed neither by hate nor malice  
but by the turning of the clock  
no key to wind those gears and lock  
we watch it as it falls apart  
reflecting it, with meager art  
and searching for the key in vain  
searching and struggling to explain  
the one way road that points downhill  
until it ends, and all is still

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**Author notes:** https://allpoetry.com/contest/2795621-2nd-Law-of-Thermodynamics-Practical-Aspects