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August 2006, no. 283

Art is Not Life

'Art is Not Life' by Chris Wallace-Crabbe

by Chris Wallace-Crabbe
August 2006, no. 283

You set down orange, with a dab of blue
and this grows into art
of a non-offender’s kind,
innocent as a fart in the footy crowd.
Meanwhile, the killing stumbles on

 


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