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    As One Door Closes
    As One Door Closes
    As One Door Closes
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    As One Door Closes

    By Ant Smith

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    Twenty shorter, darker, page poems from Ant, The GameCat, Smith. No where near as much fun as seeing him on stage but it can't all be sunlight and roses - can it?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAnt Smith
    Release dateDec 9, 2012
    ISBN9781301124237
    As One Door Closes
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    Ant Smith

    Photographer and Performance Poet

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      As One Door Closes - Ant Smith

      Broken ornament, tube of super glue

      Those drunken same sex passionate kisses

      The size of your manly male equipment

      (or whatever maybe the female equivalent)

      How little you earn, all those hours squandered

      Some of those clubs into which you wandered

      The age you really made it to fourth base

      That web cam moment when you showed your face

      The accidental murder of a family pet

      The day you stole, got raped or bled

      The suicidal moments inside your head

      Many of the things you told your best friend

      The image staring back from the shaving mirror

      The fear that the world can see a

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