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Lamp Abandoned

Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 12:00 am

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Butcher Black, Detroit, Runner Up, Poetry

LAMP ABANDONED when once

the sun’s promise escaped the

famous form.

Among the nothing singers:

shafts and canyons, steel

cactus, skull and stars.

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