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Recorded Reading (0:24): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6lkjl6h64vtt75z9sz5ad/Haters.mp3?rlkey=x4a9q1ryrczqdpj2mrtgza07j&dl=0

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Haters

They won’t stop
Until they see
Me look at them
As they at me

Not, “Might we in
Good friendship be?”
But “How can I make you
My enemy?”

They can just
Go on forever:
The answer to that question’s
“Never.”

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