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Monolith

By Elaine Equi
Monolith
 
cheerful stoic epic
cozy corporate convalescence
hollow gold-brick rhetoric
almighty and sleek

Copyright Credit: Photograph by Elaine Equi
Source: Poetry (July/August 2014)
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