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MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature
Issue 34: Sept. 2026
Prose Poem: 103 words
By Bob Lucky

in/on, out/off

 

You’re in the choir, the band, the drama club. But if you’re part of a team, you’re on the football team, the basketball team, and the debate team. However, you’re in the debate society. You get kicked out of the choir, band and drama. But you get kicked off the football team. If you’re an actor in a play, you’re in the cast. If you’re a stage hand, you’re on the crew. This sometimes keeps me awake at night. I’d much rather lie in the dark wondering if the Inuit dream of snakes or the Bedouin of polar bears.

 

Bio: Bob Lucky

 
 
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