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This image shows a blackout poetry piece. The original text of the page is mostly covered with a white paper, which is decorated with an illustration of a person dancing below a large human hand. Around the person and the hand, there are crayon drawings of multicolored circles. This illustrated paper has been torn in some places to reveal select words and phrases from the original text, forming a new poetic message to accompany the drawing.

By Matilda Boal

PATIENT

patient
pain
impose upon
diagnosis
surrender

the facts.
Let me take you
monstrous
blind
one,

defection of love
reason to
conceal

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