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A Life of Few

Edward Lee

The public-money-built
house of hand-jobs
and blow jobs
has the highest rent
of any building
in the city.

The queues for rooms
are longer
than the country
is wide, death the only thing
that makes them available.

I have stood
in a queue for a time,
as have you. Despite
our riotous words
and shaking anger
we want to be able
to look at the world
through the windows
coloured with pleasures
and privileges.

The queues continue to grow
as the rents continue to rise,
a better life somehow possible
even as life becomes unliveable.

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