For Your Convenience

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One zoo animal in a cage
too tight for pacing.
(Buckets of soiled rage
make for shaky ground.)

It’s free to watch our fruit wither on the vine.
Your ticket has been comped by private donations.

“Anatomical Venus,” Vienna, Austria, late 18th c.

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Chapter Forty-Eight

I’ve lived a lot of lives and I process that through various writings. Not for the faint of heart.