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In the Country of Old Men

by David Wagoner
Issue #21
Summer 1980
He woke in a different country, his own hands Rose to his mouth, and his fingers Rubbed at his eyes, and he was standing On his own feet, but the people passing Had darkened their speech like daylight going dim...

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