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The Palimpsest Review - Volume 10

Palimpsest onLine!'s Professional Writers at Work

H. Kassia Fleisher: "Spinning Miss Stein's Grave"

Todd Davis: "Looking for theLight"

Prudence Grimes: "Writing My Father's Stories"

Jeff Worley: "Tapping the Wellspring of Language"

Ray Petersen: "The Cardinal Trait of the Writer"

Dev Hathaway: "The Art of the Story"

Karen Blomain: Two Poems

Len Roberts: Seven Poems

Len Roberts: Cohoes Theater (PDF Book)

Maria Jacketti: "Objects of Poetry"

Jim Manis: "Struggling to Publish"

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Sarah Etter: “Concaves”

Marissa Molina: "The Day I Wasn’t There"

Andrew Timberlake-Newell: "Smokie"

Anthony Kocur: "To the Edge"

David Kim: "Young and Perverted"

Ryan Morini: "B – Movie Enthusiast"

Joe Giachero: "Whatever Came First"

Meghan Elliott: "Sound"

Veronika L Daddona: "Driver" and "Lamentia"

Ronell Smith: "The 1988 Holiday Barbie"

Charles Howells: "Bandwagon Patriots"

Andrew Noll: "Ten Feet Behind J.F.K."

Sarah E. Smith: "Autumn Skies"

Daniel Debiec: "A Morning in Missoula" and "into the rain"

Ryan Melling: "Hand in Hand"

Andraleen Zelonis: "Let’s Play"

Kevin Cope: "House Guest"

Becky Liscusky: "I Like Dogs and Frogs" and "You know the pan’s hot"

Amber Shinskie: "Scent of a Cherry Cigar"

Zachary Bricker: "Bedtime Story"

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Last updated July 3, 2004; first published to the web: July 3, 2004.

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Andraleen Zelonis – Hazleton

Let’s Play

Yeah, I’ve heard your name before.
You have a reputation around here,
and so do I.
Step up, take a shot—
What have you got to lose?

You say I can’t play the game,
that I’m just a girl.
I’m warning you now
I don’t play fair—
I play to win.

Just ignore those other guys
crying in the corner.
They couldn’t take me down,
but you think you’re different—
I guess we’ll see.

Andraleen Zelonis' poem appears here with her express written permission and cannot be reprinted or otherwise used without her express written permission.

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