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The Backporch Review 2022

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By Ella Brown, 12

I stacked maybe 500 bricks,

all marked with lost names, and long distance wails.

A few more bricks, and there would be no way out.

The city ignores my calls for help.

The city ignores my aching empty stomach.

Trapped in a town full of people who only know

indifference.

The experiment is over.

The heartbreak lasts a lifetime.

Piece by piece I smash each brick with a

sledgehammer

And shine light on the names left in the dark.

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