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Marcia Southwick

Poetry

Autumn 1990

Fear of Angels

By Marcia Southwick

for S. S. "Don't say goodbye. Have you heard the one about the …?"—a veteran of World War II, he's broke, a retired bank teller who makes up stories about […]