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Poetry

Clutter

by Jeanne Murray Walker in the March 27, 2019 issue
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I am finally down
to what I need: one

table to double
for eating/writing,

one pen, and enough
alphabet to spell

Your name when
You choose to

disclose it.

 

This poem appears in the March 27, 2019 issue.

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