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Poetry from the Age of Mass Incarceration

Brisby

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i wrote a poem today
but the guard
would not let
it
thru the gate.

somewhere in a city
i will never visit

a time span
that will not return

a part of me
is floating.

Stewart Brisby. A Death in America, or, The Life Expectancy of Your Nearest Living Relative Depends on How Fast You Fill Out This Form (1986)

Cover to A Death in America, or, the life expectancy of your nearest living relative depends on how fast you fill out this form. Poems. Stewart Brisby.
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