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Don’t Look Back by Frederick K Foote

July 10, 2017July 10, 2017 literallystories2014

I’m deep in the blues, down in the Bottom, bottom of the Bucket of Blood, the bottoms of beer bottles, consumed by rotgut, roiled by raw, ripping, crosscut blues.

A heavy left-handed boogie on the piano.

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