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CITIZEN
by Charlie Mehrhoff
Citizen.
American.
The war,
don't say
it hasn't come here,
I read nothing else
upon your face.
Charlie Mehrhoff has sent out little work in the past decade but has occasionally offered some words to The New Verse News.
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