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Stuck
by Pam Patterson
Saturday, August 02, 2003

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I run in place,
still,
back to the womb of
my childhood.
Like the hapless fly
stuck in seductive strands of
a spider web, I am lodged
in the death-stare.
I weep in the silence
of my father’s dry eye-socket.

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