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the shelves I’ve stacked

Paul Tanner

row after row
line after line
of shop shelving
have I stacked

only to fill them again
over and over

the shelves I’ve stacked
to no avail

for all my adult life
thus far
and probably
for what’s left of it

miles
continents
a whole planet’s worth
of shop shelving
have I stacked

like a ladder to nowhere

“like”?

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