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Bartimaeus

An Excerpt from The Hundredfold: Songs for the Lord
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On Fridays during Lent this year at Poetry Aloud we’ve been featuring six of the twelve dramatic monologues from my book-length poem, The Hundredfold: Songs for the Lorda poem made up of 100 poems, all centering on the time of Christ’s life and the age of the apostles afterwards. This week we will be revisiting the fifth monologue, “Bartimaeus,” spo…

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