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this is not dante's inferno

Writer: Aqeel ParvezAqeel Parvez

we don't get

better


there is no

getting better


we just hurt

a little less


and what is more

explodes

like a dying star


and what is

dead

keeps dying



This poem was previously published in the chapbook 'The Streetlights are Beckoning Nirvana' (Analog Submission Press)

 
 
 

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