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    John Belk

    Dec 14, 2022 2 minutes

    Autumn House Press (Rising Writer Prize in Poetry)

    (no wrestler has ever used an
    Annie Lennox song as entry
    music
    for fear
    the whole world might weep,
    split
    apart at its belt, whistle its
    conscience to make itself cry)

    —from “bar trivia: no wrestler has ever used an Annie

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