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    About Flight
    About Flight
    About Flight
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    About Flight

    By Frank X Walker

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    "Up until this point in American history, no poet has written an honest and believable lament about the crippling effects from the tornado swirl of a crack pipe, how a little rock being melted between thin mesh screen creates pallid smoke: a monster, a slave to the white lady that is cocaine. In About Flight, Frank X Walker gives us the bea

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAccents Publishing, LLC
    Release dateSep 1, 2015
    ISBN9781936628711
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