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Ode to Pain

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    By David Kelsey (1954–2013)

    Hello, old friend,

    Long time no see

    What new delights

    Have you got for me?

    Pull up a chair and

    Let me look

    At your smiling face

    You sick old fuck.

    Hot, sharp knives

    And bands of steel,

    Lightning bolts

    And the breaking wheel.

    Nothing else? …

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