Volume 1, Issue 3 & 4 - Diverse Voices Quarterly
Volume 1, Issue 3 & 4 - Diverse Voices Quarterly
Volume 1, Issue 3 & 4 - Diverse Voices Quarterly
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STAINS<br />
The whole long day’s a tattoo.<br />
Whoever’s building you on her cosmic erector set<br />
never writes in pencil.<br />
Some claim that Shout<br />
will take the uglies out,<br />
but deep in the fabric’s DNA<br />
is every blemish recorded.<br />
What? you thought you’d wash those darklings off,<br />
stain upon stain, sigh upon sigh?<br />
Yeah, something to think about,<br />
next stain comes winking toward you down your street.<br />
Easier to toss your sad-stained self away, start over.<br />
—Barry Spacks<br />
<strong>Diverse</strong> <strong>Voices</strong> <strong>Quarterly</strong>, Vol. 1, <strong>Issue</strong> 3 & 4 45
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