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seventy-one (Joy, a cento)

Posted on April 5, 2017April 18, 2017 by nike sulway

(lines from the 2015 film, Joy)

there is a gun on the table

the only other person in the room
got here from hard work
patience and humility

only one of you can prevail
only one of you is
like a gas leak

silently killing us

do you pick up the gun?

pick up the gun, Joy

pick up
the goddam gun

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