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as a boy, the new housing project,
as a boy, the new housing project,
chain-lined walks, blacktop sweat,poverty just a spelling word.</poem></div>
chain-lined walks, blacktop sweat,poverty just a spelling word.</poem></div>
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poverty just a spelling word.
To rate responsibility, I’ve tried
to rid myself of selfish
evasion. It’s just as well
that I move to Nepal!
Someone believes, someone bleeds.
A girl bolts screaming from bed,</poem></div>

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« The Mailer ReviewVolume 13 Number 1 • 2019 »
Written by
Sal Cetrano
Note: For David Koresh
URL: http://prmlr.us/mr13cet1
The Child
Sal Cetrano

For years I’ve tried to bury
the child in me: that last proud
barber pole I stood in front of
as a boy, the new housing project,
chain-lined walks, blacktop sweat,poverty just a spelling word.