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Friends Fall Out: Chapter 1

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May 13, 2026
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Friends Fall Out: Chapter 1

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

Awakes a worn hero, Robert Hunger,
who takes out the closet a thread-bare rag,
once a kingly cape, to wipe clinging sweat
which collects, each night, on his corded neck:
yet needling dreams relieved, their hurried flight,
of his wholeness him never can convince,
and …

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