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TORCH SONG: QUIT SONG
Men isn’t there always the dead
letter office yes wasn’t your wage
a hogwash wage & there’s always
a furnace waiting for men who’ll
burn our undeliverables for pay
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Eureka if you want to look past
the mist back into the timberland
you squint like you’re muscling
your way through the scab yard
& wish on your fly ash at the gate
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Torch Songs is a collaboration between Allyson Paty and Danniel Schoonebeek. Poems from Torch Songs have appeared or are forthcoming in Tin House, Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast, The Awl, Colorado Review, Failbetter, Loaded Bicycle, Bridge, and elsewhere. Both poets live in Brooklyn.
