One Is the Loneliest Number but Nu Is the Loneliest Letter, by Chris Gaither | poems, essays, and short stories in Poeticous

Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

One Is the Loneliest Number but Nu Is the Loneliest Letter

In failing to put the

I in team

I took the

erotic out of neurotic

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