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Item: Stay
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Author: Robert Laird

Robert LairdMarch 2, 2018

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written by: Robert Laird

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empty echo
butterfly wings
hands open free,
in the wind you're gone
and I breathe so deep,
reach only as far
as empty
recalls

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Robert Laird

Retired high school English teacher
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At Peace - March 31, 2018
Stay - March 2, 2018
Unfinished - February 6, 2018

Warren Alexander grew up in Brooklyn, NY in a standard two parent, one son, one daughter household, and still lives in New York City. He was identified as the first five-year-old cynic his kindergarten teacher had ever encountered. He did not like children’s books because, well, they were written for children. Because he was a terrible student, he did not have his choice of colleges. He looked at the subway map and chose the nearest four year school by distance, Baruch College. He studied with Thomas Keneally, Peter Carey, and E. L. Doctorow, among others at NYU, where he received his MA in creative writing. His satiric novel, Cousins’ Club, was a semi-finalist for 2017 BookLIfe Award for General Fiction. His work, Wrong Train, placed second for the 2016 Rick DeMarinis Short Story Award judged by Michael Matrone. He is currently working on a satiric novel about business.