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Long Talking Bad Conditions Blues

by Ronald Sukenick
Issue #18
Fall 1979
from his apartment on Ferrell Anderson Place he liked to walk down to the quai which the local inhabitants referred to as The Reiser for reasons Carl was not able to determine but he somehow always lost his way on...

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