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Patricia Spears Jones

Poetry

Autumn 1993

Officially Lent

By Patricia Spears Jones

Officially Lent and all I want is red meat and wine. The winter weather cauls this morning, temperature drops as fast as Nicaragua’s GNP, while two more black boys die. […]