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Battle Caw

By Erynn Crittenden
May 18, 2026
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Half-chewed words
Stick in my craw
As I suppress
The urge to gnaw
Through the chains
Of the bourgeois
Which expose
Our every flaw
In hopes that I
Will soon withdraw
My disdain of
Their grand hooplah
And support of those
They would declaw
But I would rather
We redraw
Those who would
Demand our awe
And make them shut
Their hateful maw
So we can rise up
With a “CAW”
And eat those
Fucking bigwigs raw.


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Erynn Crittenden

Erynn Crittenden has written poetry since she could hold a pen. This love prompted her to earn a BA in Creative Writing, where she learned how to experiment with syllables and styles. Since then, Erynn has self-published three poetry collections (By the Bones, Transfiguration, and Into the Western Sky) through Amazon. She also writes and publishes plenty of individual poems on her website, and her work has appeared in the Talon Literary Magazine, the Beautiful Poetry anthology by Silent Sparks Press, the #AmWriting anthology by the Wayne Foundation, and Life Blood: A Collection of Vampire Tales by Gary Hill. Erynn is also the creator and host of the Present Poetry Podcast, where she reads and celebrates a different poet every week. Find it and the rest of her works by visiting her website at LadyErynn.com.

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