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The Sealey Challenge Day 5

Richard Jeffrey Newman

by Richard Jeffrey Newman

The Sealey Challenge Day 5

The Sealey Challenge Day 5

When the police come,
I’m sitting at the table,
the cup of coffee
that I am unable to drink
as cold as you body.
I shot him, I say, he beat me.
I do not tell them how the emancipation from pain
leaves nothing in its place.

from “Finished,” in Greed, Ai’s fifth book.

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