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Nathan Taylor is a technical writer living in Cleveland, Ohio. He studied poetry at Virginia Tech and New Mexico State.
The gods offer blank slates. The gods offer black marker smiles. They offer profit, excess, cardboard
box-headed children to the void so I don’t have to.
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