“The truth is I am a perfect part of the exact point at which all individual human beings meet and the spectrum of voices weaving themselves in between and screaming 'every sick thought you've ever had and every twisted feeling you've ever felt are what make this painting complete.”

—  Buddy Wakefield

Thin Ice
Poetry

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American poet 1974

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