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FREE COPY OF PISSING IN THE PRESS POOL WHEN YOU SIGN ON AS A PAID SUBSCRIBER TO Piss Pool Weekly, Jim Trainer's Poem Of The Week

FREE COPY OF PISSING IN THE PRESS POOL WHEN YOU SIGN ON AS A PAID SUBSCRIBER TO Piss Pool Weekly, Jim Trainer's Poem Of The Week

"What little's always left of glory's human uniform..."

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Nov 27, 2023
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FREE COPY OF PISSING IN THE PRESS POOL WHEN YOU SIGN ON AS A PAID SUBSCRIBER TO Piss Pool Weekly, Jim Trainer's Poem Of The Week
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THE TROUBLE WITH YOU

you wear your dreams like armor
and they weighing you down
tell me you a poet
a channeler, a medium
but fill up your calendar
with must-dos, post how
“it’s complicated” and anyway
share the meaningless detrita
of your vainglory,
being a poet is simple—
show up
at the page or microphone
and just bleed

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