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An Olympics in Ohio

poem fatigue

Emily Sanders Hopkins
Jun 03, 2024
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I don’t feel like writing any poems
about my childhood anymore, 
it was so long ago, ninety years. 
Now I only recall memories of memories,
and what good are they, except to say
how I used to think about those days,
invented things making pale, flapping
shadows on a cave, and anyway, 
you're mixing up your caves. There was a war, 
I…

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