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Excerpt, "Wasteland Dreams"

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Andromeda, Gustave Doré

 Part of the collection Dues for the Repose: From Words Much Like Poetry by Wamuhu Mwaura


"  Near Joppa, guarded by a monster of the Earthshaker’s lending,
I left her chained without hope—for Perseus is long dead,
abandoned to oblivion by the fickle beliefs of men— "


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