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| ***BIO*** Wayne Mason is a writer and factory worker from central Florida, when he grows up he wants to be Kannon. His work has been published throughout the small press and he is author of one chapbook 'Broken Zen'. |
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| Full of holes |
| by Wayne Mason |
| When you're a kid
your parents they say "You can be anything even President." Of course over time you start to see the holes in this theory You realize the world needs scrubs too and for some to suceed others have to fail I've been in training for this my whole life When I was ten I went on a school field trip to a factory, I was just a dumb kid looking up at the huge steel framework and enormous machines the shaking and clanking assaulting my senses It was exciting. I didn't know better I didn't look into the workers eyes I didn't pay attention to the lifers shuffling by with hunched backs and calloused hands. I had no idea the message they were sending that The world doesn't need poets it doesn't need thinkers it needs muscle to feed hungry machines We were just dumb lower class kids watching our future open up right before our eyes |
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| May 2007 |
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