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The Weight of the Body

by Dawnine Spivak
Issue #23
Winter 1980-81
     How the coffin was not even carried by pall bearers but lamely rolled on wheels from the hears. Not even the weight of the body. Not that last presence felt by any other body. Alex in aluminum. Left out of...

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