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Tag Archives: stories

2023, Driftwood, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, river life, the no-scape, Working Class Literature

driftwood redrift

August 13, 2023Mick ParsonsAmerican Literature, American poem, American poetry, myth, pain driftwood, poem, poetry, stories Leave a comment

go on, tell them that did not know you when,
stories of what you did.

relish the disbelief in their eyes. know
you walk with 100 billion foundation myths.

yes. sometimes the way is pain.

trust what hurts. faith in muscle and bone is the lie.

know this knowing this is how you will kill the body and live.

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