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Inauguration Day
Aaron Balkan
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1,175 views
The music says Simple Gifts are hidden somewhere in the middle. / And that they’ll arrive. It says the President himself is turning around in his…
Imaginary Stanzas
Aaron Balkan
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3,008 views
There was a pipe that ran along the roof of the shithouse / made of shined copper / and a pay phone encircled by sunflowers / and more often…
Money Is Murder
Kevin Sampsell
(0)
1,209 views
I once heard // of a teenager / who threw a fifty-cent piece / off a highway overpass / / The coin pierced through / the windshield of a…
DOOMED WASP
A.M. O'Malley
(0)
57 views
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…
Trouble
Seth Coffman
(1)
11 views
Wine bottle in hand, / she drunk danced on the edge / of the floating dock. / A setting sun-kissed silhouette, / she wore my sweater / a size too…
Dear Whiteness
Shannon Barber
(0)
265 views
I want to say / Officially / I won't be / Assimilating / To the degree / Recommended / To survive. / I regret / To inform / …
I Love You
SDA
(0)
304 views
You funnel-chested ones, we say trichterbrusters, with pectus excavatum. // And you with pectus carinatum, whose pigeon-chests metaphorically / I…
America (Genius Annotation)
SDA
(0)
363 views
I have a habit of directly addressing my country / in an ironic, even parodic fashion. Speedy anger / is worth about $2.27 these days, / which…