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Jay Whittaker

Black text on white reads ‘Chapwench by Jay Whittaker’ with a Friday Poem yellow blob at the far right hand end over the last few letters of the word ‘Whittaker’.

Chapwench

by Jay Whittaker — Where do I start? / Not with the gut punch, / all my father said / after I came out. // I’ve deleted his slander from this page. / I choose not to repeat it. / Didn’t he apologise? / Don’t I have the last word? // It was the argument

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