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Short Blues: this too shall pass. Coming into, through, and then out of the greatest period of depression and pain of his life, Gabriel Posey crafts poems built uniquely for the limitations placed on him through his Twitter interactions.
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Gabriel Posey has been writing for the last twenty years in fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. With a dozen novels, dozens of short stories, and millions of words over his career, it was time to focus on something brief. Short Blues is his first poetry anthology. You can find him on that blue bird website here: https://twitter.com/GabePosey
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