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(Note from the author’s son: Below is a snippet from one of our email exchanges in June 2021. I felt compelled to share this mention of a title for a poem.)<\/p>\n

Weight down to 179 today, aiming next\u00a0at high school mark of 150. Then a zen-like 85. New\u00a0poem<\/span>\u00a0title: “Weigh My Dust.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Note from the author’s son: Below is a snippet from one of our email exchanges in June 2021. I felt compelled to share this mention of a title for a poem.) Weight down to 179 … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-2","category-posthumous-additions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":709,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=709","url_meta":{"origin":2772,"position":0},"title":"Pencil Dust Devil","author":"Rick Young","date":"February 25, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"In a whirlwind of lead, I fled inside my head, imagined myself dead, and met the devil. 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