“Course you been hurt. You was born to hurt. What make you wanna forget somethin that important? Power that’s worth somethin --real power!--live an’ grow from the hurt you feed it.”

—  Aberjhani

(Elijah's Skin, p. 4).
Book Sources, I Made My Boy Out of Poetry (1998)

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