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Wayne Koestenbaum

Poetry

Summer 1993

From Rhapsody

By Wayne Koestenbaum

O for the inspiration to speak without error or apology! ∗I have lived through fifth grade and fourth and third— ∗I have gone backward and survived the trip ∗into the […]