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Writer's pictureShane Gannaway

7/24/2023

tapping out prosody with an

empty tank – haha, this is


how Orwell felt in Paris.

the laugh must be forced.


bread and wine and cigarettes.

there is money for nothing


else. paper, a pen, maybe.

if not, one can always use blood,


soot from last week’s fire,

grime from the rind of a cheese.


there is a way; god knows all I have is will


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