Poetry Reading: Circle of Death, by Robert Pegel
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Performed by Val Cole
POEM:
My mother is dead.
My father is dead.
My brother is dead.
My other brother is dead.
My sister is dead.
My nephew is dead.
My son is dead.
When will my family stop dying?
I’m never going to get used to it.
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