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I’m
David D. Horowitz
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I’m not a gear wheel in some tyranny’s machine.I’m not another day in tedium’s routine.I’m not ingratiation’s nodding grin.I’m not duplicity’s…
Getting Rid of Cable/George H.W. Bush
Noah Siela
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Sitting my American ass on the couch / watching America on TV and wanting / seven hundred million ears / to listen to my weak voice / creak…
The Witness
Jonas Kyle-Sidell
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In the hour before they return / I finally hear the silence, / / and the moon / as my witness – / / one likes to know / the world /…
A Warm Fire, but Make it Feelings
Ayla-Monic
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It snowed again today, / left the earth encrusted and my body shivering. / It’s cold in here, and I think about // bundling up, / heading out,…
DOOMED WASP
A.M. O'Malley
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I doomed a wasp, / closed her up / in between two / window panes. / She is trapped / but doesn’t know it. / No one noticed / my mother’s…
See Through
Nathan Wade Carter
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A head full of sand turning glass / with every douse of doubt. / I will soon be shiny and see through. / Soon I will start fires with my eyes. /…
Oct 26–Waxed Beans
Mary Zartman
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Poems come all the time now / but I don’t write them down. / Even this one is half what it was / before I found the notebook / and set the…
Cecilia, or: most of what happens in a …
Margaret McCarthy
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Cecilia and everything undone. / Inadequate and worldly. / Smiling and smiling and smiling / and thank you and everything else. / Their skin, their…