There is not much I can say about this poem ahead of the reading, other than half an apology for posting something so intensely personal, and a whole apology for the somewhat convoluted phrasing of it.
As to the first, I needed to write it, and I also need to print it. And perhaps it will speak to others who have also been forced to test the far limits …
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