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He wants to sleep
but he has to do
all this work, but
he wants to do
all this work, but
he has to sleep.
James Shea’s first book of poems, Star in the Eye, won the 2008 Fence Modern Poets Series competition and will be published this fall. He lives in Chicago.
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