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freewrite at a shrink’s



career? I burned that bridge
& ret’d to Chicago
a few bags of my stuff
a g/f’s bed

& found work
taking surveys
about movies & smoked

Gitanes on our rotted-wood landing
read the books she brought me & drank
pints of Jim Beam
fought & made love & got

a new job
& got canned
this

is thrown-away chapters
prequela never sent
recalled now
on rented couch

the 50-min. hrs.
copaid, shortchange

to relearn incomplete

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