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Jake Tringali is a Boston poet and performance artist with nine years of experience. He focuses on the edges of society, and the intersection of technology and human endeavors. He is a certified Artist in the City of Boston.

There is Poetry in Dorchester

Waiting for my takeout egg rolls, pork fried rice.  She tumbles into
the empty restaurant, points at the picture on the wall, just above

me. “Did you know…did you know, SIR, that THAT was Dorchester?
”Without looking, I retort, “back then,” so she smiles; “that was my

world. I built it!”  Without ordering anything, she wets her lips and kisses
 the door on the way out.  Grabbing a brown bag of the day’s sustenance,

I leave, and glance at that picture.  It is a glorious technicolor photo
of a Chinese Buddhist temple.  I brace against the cold, reach for the door,

wet my lips.

— Jake Tringali

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