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Byron  Gates Jr
Author: Byron Gates Jr
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...and what are the words one uses to describe a compilation?, works from my entire life?, fifty years of carrying around a yellow pad?, fifty years of writing and rewriting, changing the words, as their meanings change for me?

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These pieces are extracted from my book of prose, “50 truths and 50 lies, the first 50 years.” Available Here

it’s what we do,

all the time,
for each and every one
of those things we want,
and haven’t received yet.

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byron gates jr

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