Copyright © 2012 by Anthony D'Aries

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The Language of Men draws on material from the following previously published essays by Anthony D'Aries:

"Exhausted"

Motif, Vol. 3: All the Livelong Day: An Anthology of Writings about Work (Motes Books, 2011)

"The Language of Men"

The Literary Review, Spring 2011, Vol. 54, No. 03

"Chalk"

Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices, Fall/ Winter 2010-11

(This essay also appeared in Tarnished: True Tales of Innocense Lost. Pinchback Press, 2011)

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