FLARE: The Flagler Review Fall 2012

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Pantoum: A Toast by Numbers Megan Parker They released her from prison, ten bucks to her name after she car-crashed her kids in ’98. The toddler ejected past the window frame. Cops found a bottle wedged behind the brake. After she car-crashed her kids in ’98, she fed her son rum to soothe his pain. Cops found a bottle wedged behind the brake. Medics life-flighted her boy with torn vertebral veins, She fed her son rum to soothe his pain. Five A.A. pins rust in her cigarette case. Medics life-flighted her boy with torn vertebral veins, It took him nine months to walk with no brace. Five A.A. pins rust in her cigarette case. Three sets of sirens wailed her shame. It took him nine months to walk with no brace. She played the victim all the same. Three sets of sirens wailed her shame. The toddler ejected past the window frame. She played the victim all the same. They released her from prison, ten bucks to her name.

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