Contributor: Nate Maye

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If I could take your world
on my shoulders, bear all
unkindness for you, I might
try, if my muscles were
broad enough, bones strong
enough

If I could hold up the world
for a few more minutes,
I would at least think about it,
if nothing else for your sake.


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Nate Maye is new to poetry. He studies literature, watches more television than he should, and is from Texas.