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Nov 2012
You are a rummage sale
jigsaw puzzle. Pieces missing.
Colors faded and edges frayed
exactly like the edges of our smiles
as they crack through the masks
we wear. Faces half concealed
like the Halloween party
where Red seeped through
and made me feel again.
Charles Barnett
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Charles Barnett  Ironton, Ohio
(Ironton, Ohio)   
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