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Vodka BlowjobsIn the mid-1990s I worked as a bartender / on the second floor of a local hotdog joint / near the University of Pittsburgh.
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Saturday NightYou are the elixir / of overworked men / a companion
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AssistanceOn the bicycle trail, a middle-aged / woman in spandex biking gear / had her bike flipped upside down.
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NeglectedI only love you / at night / when loneliness
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Bernie 2016At the Bernie Sanders rally on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in Alabama, a middle-aged woman in the crowd fell to the floor from illness. The entire rally silenced. All 7,000 attendees turned their focus to her welfare. When the medics arrived, the crowd erupted into cheers, a heroes’ welcome. The people then applauded the ill woman once she regained the ability to walk out of the event. / Two weeks prior, at a rally for the authoritarian populist Donald Trump, three white men stomped a black man. He’d worn a t-shirt that read 'Black Lives Matter.'
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DaydreamersThe clerk behind the coffee counter, / she stares out the window / onto the sunny street, lost in thought.
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Hard Labor LoveI came up in Pittsburgh, / the Rust Belt of hard labor / with a deep love of community.
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FortitudeThere's something peculiar / about witnessing courage / in the face of hatred
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HeavenAt this sushi joint, / she searched for the words / to describe her dinner.
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FamineHiding behind text messages / we believe immunizes the heart / is a forced loneliness
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