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April 3, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Back Before Everyone Was On Their Phone Every Fucking Five Minutes

I grew up with a spa pool behind a Ponga fence, the latest album by Huey Lewis and The News and the remnants of when my dad was a master of Macramé. That’s never far from my mind as I make it through this world – Boz Scaggs and Steely Dan and Lionel Richie and […]
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