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Vandal Poem of the Day: November 25, 2021

 by Ricardo Alberto Maldonado

We are lost on the bed,
an arm cut off by an abstraction.

Old pox, you
and your shirt sleeve.

Yet be careful when you walk there
(outside, the live oaks).

How late, Ricardo, how dark
and late already.
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