Contributor: J. "Ash" Gamble

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I laid my father to rest
in his pristine suit after
watching the wolves of life
and bottle rip at him,
I named him in his crib
of death the way he named
me at my deadly birth
and in that moment of double
breasted peace and quiet
the two of us became one
man in the same suit

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J. “Ash” Gamble is a late in life poet from Florida.