A contemporary poem about a crooked entrance, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The entrance is crooked enough to tell the truth. Everyone who enters has to turn sideways. No one looks graceful. Inside, the chairs are waiting. The room has built a welcome for bodies that do not fit straight.
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