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Hear the author read this poem (in RealAudio)
Battling cascading
steam, my ancient
neighbor would face
his fogged mirror,
cutthroat razor
mowing down, up,
piratical blade
making every
stroke a page torn
from a life story
told the hard way,
because "Someone,
by God, has to keep
the old skills alive."
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Browse back issues of The Atlantic that have appeared on the Web. From September 1995 to the present, the archive is essentially complete, with the exception of a few articles, the online rights to which are held exclusively by the authors.
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