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John Ebersole
November 2014
Poetry
Introduction
By
John Ebersole
I watched these Philly kids kick a music box up and down Cecil B. Moore Avenue. They were having fun, but the ballerina inside was destroyed. Philadelphia is a music box with a dead ballerina inside it.
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