Mike Essig
1 min readMar 20, 2017

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Thanks, Ms Kimball. If you write a poem about suicide in the first person, expect your phone to ring. The I can be anyone you want it to be. Readers should be smart enough to understand you aren’t writing postcards.

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Mike Essig

Honorary Schizophrenic. Recent refugee. Displaced person. Old white male. Confidant of cassowaries.