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Tony Gloeggler: Minimum Wages

He’d talk about the summer
he worked behind a counter,
slicing meat, creating fully
loaded heroes like works of art.

December 2, 2025 · 11 Comments

Gerald Fleming: Work

Today you’ll work in the room behind the barn. For years there’s been a stain on the sheetrock where the rain drips in, and the place smells of rot, and when the other day you yanked off a chunk of sheetrock, thinking might be rotten wood in there, thinking you’d maybe have to replace a few studs, you found, in that damp place, everything rotten.

July 11, 2021 · 3 Comments

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