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Poem: Urban Threnodies
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Sep 09, 2021
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A panic attack from the Vietnam vet, thirty years on – just the smells of the cooking from the takeaway restaurant took him across oceans and back several costume changes and many more haircuts – and he was curled up on the footpath crying at the rotten thoughts that fresh, sweet smell brought with it.

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