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Mar 2020
He's wearing a black mask
as if
someone had dealt him the ace of spades
when we all know it's only Russian roulette.

better to be safe than secure?
yeah,
sure looks like a bullet to me
though.

Through the openings of his eyes where
the dream lives on and dies
I see tomorrow in the background
a blackground for the black mask

I want to ask him then about now,
but don't know how to phrase
the question.

The chamber spins and
the dealer.grins in that
Russian kind of way,
John Edward Smallshaw
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John Edward Smallshaw  68/Here and now
(68/Here and now)   
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     Aubrey and Carlo C Gomez
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