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Hometown Hero: Chapter 2

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May 14, 2026
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Hometown Hero: Chapter 2

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

In Crummburg in times of old, when, from springs
on high the gold flowed in knuckle nuggets,
and was from deep pits delved, and there grew up
on the wasteland, and on strips between claims
a seething trim of shacks and shanties
—we had then no sense of us. These lone m…

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