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implying something about the British at the time

Winston Churchill described Iranian oil as “a prize from fairyland beyond our wildest dreams.” The British in Iran were extracting oil from the country and paying back to the Iranian people only 16 percent of profits after taxes—taxes they paid to themselves, since British Petroleum was then a subs…

—p.123 The Baffler Issue no. 55: Psychopomp Coup d'Etats and Cartoons (120) by A S Hamrah
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the photographer walks into camp misc/poetry

On Day 1, the photographer walks into camp
and immediately starts shooting. She shoots us

at breakfast eating our C-rations, in our hammocks
reading Stars and Stripes. She shoots us in her sleep.

—p.115 Speak, Reenactment (110) missing author
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ekphrasis

some of my early poems were ekphrastic

—p.17 Back from the Afterlife (14) missing author
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