Poetry
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Great Dams on the Land
"When my son rides the Switch Back Gravity Rail over coal lines in Jim Thorpe, I hope to God the mountains are His and my boy might believe in his ancestor clans."
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Why is the City of Flint Allowed to Waste Away?
It’s February in Flint, Michigan and children will / make paper heart valentines."
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meditations in the decline of western civilization
"this is how i ground myself. / i follow the writing on the wall."
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Return (For Chicago)
"This city isn’t built on bullets / alone."
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A Minor Biographical Insight
"What I remember of South Bend is smoking in the back yard. / The small, short houses of a cheap and curbless neighborhood."

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