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    Thursday, December 8, 2016

    LESSONS FROM THE 2016 ELECTION

    by David Galef


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    Narcissistic bigotry is never a crime.
    You can be a billionaire on a very thin dime.
    There’s no disgrace out of which you can’t climb.
    One lie will pull another out of the slime.
    Though interest rates vary, some slurs are prime.
    You can fool enough people enough of the time.


    David Galef is an American fiction writer, critic, poet, translator, and essayist. His most recent books are Brevity, A Flash Fiction Handbook and Kanji Poems. He has published over 100 poems in places ranging from The Yale Review to Shenandoah.

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