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The Escape Artist
beyond the peopleswallowing fire past the other acts
we had seen before we found the escape
artist bound to a chair hands tied
behind his back we climbed onstage
to test the chains around his ankles
and tongue watched on
as they tucked him in a burlap sack
and lowered it into a tank of water
he could get out of in his sleep
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"The Escape Artist" from Most Way Home. Copyright © 1995 by Kevin Young. Reprinted with the permission of the author and Zoland Books.
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