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“It’s Time, You Say,” “Thirteen Eggs in His Pocket,” “The Morning After”

In Poetry by Andrea HellmanMarch 1, 2023

It’s time, you say,
it’s yours to make the call of when to stop
to feel the years
attack your joints and swell your knees until
you don’t agree
it’s fair to be in so much pain to move around
from bed to chair

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