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Sept/Oct 2021 • Vol. XLIII No. 5 • Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize |

Dr. Freud’s Magic 8-Ball

By Blair Enright

Runner-up
2021 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers

you piss in a cup enough times
& you get better. whatever time

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