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The Lottery by Stewart Stafford
It was New York, 1984,
The AIDS tsunami roared in,
Friends, old overnight, no more,
Breathless, I went for a check-up.
A freezing winter's dawn,
A solitary figure before me,
What we called a drag queen,
White heels trembled in the cold.
"Hi, are you here to get tested?"
Gum chewed, brown eyes stared.
This was not my type of person,
I turned heel and walked away.
At month's end, a crippling flu,
The grey testing centre called,
Two hundred people ahead of me;
A
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Girls don't fight."
The king and his men laughed heartily; Ash glittered with anger, her eyes bright as ice in the moonbeams.
"You speak an outrage," she said to Daisy. "What world is it where females don't fight! It must be a world devised by males, where they can triumph unopposed."
"-and foully dull it must be," finished the king. "Who wants an unarmed victory?
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― The Oak King and the Ash Queen
― The Oak King and the Ash Queen
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