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Laura Straub

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24, and I, ill-fed,

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wear red-wine lipstick, an ideal stain, / sipping so it only coats the tongue. / Teeth cannot taste, but, like fat, facilitate / feeling. It's...

Whales used to have legs.

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I'll have to stay in the tub for ages, float while I sleep and never kick / a leg separate. / / Me? I don't change. / I adapt with layers and...

Alone, a piano slowly plays

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In the time that dropped in front of me, / piles of pearls would have to string themselves. / / A song I heard plunked high and cold. / In the...

From List or Lists

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Positano bathrooms are the same as / other beach bathrooms: floors wet / cement, faucets dribbled onto or tore / at our hands. There was barely...

Subscribed by Laura Straub

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The rude basics done to stay alive, / Like dogs barking, barking to gain a voice, / My tribe devised use for prayer to survive, / But between...

robert andrew perez

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i let myself get [ etta plays / away from me. in / the background ] / i want to play / tennis with you but you won't let me. / i didn't let...

Previous Convictions

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Today after having / accepted some sarcasm from / the shirtless young man on the corner, / / I noticed the old dues / no longer apply. &...

PHILLIP'S GLASS HOUSE

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The problem with a heart is that it's too high. I leave a place as if I'd entered it. Air conditioned, here. Invention of, elsewhere. Life so,...

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