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Poems

The Time of Shoring Up

1 October 2015

1:00 PM

1 October 2015

1:00 PM

After the years at the gym,
the diets and the supplements, he comes —

nevertheless — to the time of shoring up.
Now he is under the aegis of the Holy Trinity


of Dentistry, Cardiology and Urology
whose gods must be placated and obeyed.

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