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Working: Vol. 4, No. 4 - Issue 16 Winter 2025

Living Elegy​

Issue 14
Clean, pristine, palace,
Worship yourself, Anno domini stops
At 2005, and I’ve never been
More delighted to laud the new lord,
Built brick by brick, a labor of love past
The initial labor, proud future thee should be,
I’ll celebrate and see the masses mag
‘Proud pueri, proudly sequitur ventrem’
And let me, your humble devote, be
A stone, or more of years in the life,
To stand on solidly.

Wyatt Strawbridge is a casual Quaker, writer, and editor, born originally in Chicago and living in Haverford, PA. Wyatt is a sophomore English and Russian double major at Kenyon College, an editor for Lyceum Magazine, and has work forthcoming in Corporeal Magazine.

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