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This book holds the items for the contest I enter in 2019, 2020, and beyond.

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April 27: start a fire - Xenophobia
Xenophobia

The crackle of flames
wakes me from a sound sleep,
I inhale--
not the stench of burning flesh but--
the fetor of damned souls.

Smoke and ashes rise,
as nations,
religions,
and humanity writhe
in hate's all consuming fire.

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