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This poem is from the chapbook Work Songs by Jonathan Cohen (Finishing Line Press), and can be found at https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/work-songs-by-jonathan-cohen/
Jonathan Cohen is from Norwalk, Connecticut and Buffalo, New York, where he held many of the menial service jobs that inspire Work Songs. His poems have appeared in SALT, Image, Cloudbank, Stone Canoe Journal, I-70 Review, and others. He is a winner of the Naugatuck River Review Narrative Poetry Prize, a finalist for the Ralph Angel Poetry Prize, and a finalist for the Richard-Gabriel Rummonds Poetry Prize, as well as a nominee for Best Spiritual Poetry and the Pushcart Prize.
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