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Author Michael Botur

NZ short stories – fiction by Michael Botur – leading young NZ short story writer.

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About Abe

 

Alright, alright, you can suck the mouse

Scratch the screen

Leave me one numb left hand

Delete my manuscript

Snap my flashdrive

Drool between the keys

Because you’re your father boiled down,

The marrow stuck in the mutton bones

The stock of me.

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