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still cheaper than therapy: poems
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poems i wrote not to be run over by a garbage truck, not to cut off my toes with a pair of scissors, not to die of electrocution while microwaving my phone and most of all not to sing a love song in a hailstorm.
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J.C. Manto
J.C. Manto alias Claudia Toman is a writer, designer, photographer, feminist, resister and geek from Vienna, Austria. She has published half a dozen novels under her real name and the pen name Anna Koschka, designs book covers for a living and writes poetry to survive.
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