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I wish I could peel
all my sadness in one long strip off my skin
& toss it in a bucket. No one would have to carry it.
It would just sit there & be punished.
It would just sit there & think about everything it’s done.

— Chen Chen, from “Elegy for My Sadness,“ published in Breakwater Review

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