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1. Mottled green with true gilded sheen these lease speak lofted above me, Their song they sing, their voices ring crying out new wet rhymes for spring — 2. A glance at the park strikes down my heart, sending me reeling with visions of love, Please, don’t turn away on this spring day, my quiet … FOUR PARK POEMS
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TRIPTYCH ONE “From the sky, it came,Never to return,The dirt now seeded,The flowers can learn.” Arise—and so, They arose. Think—and so, They thought. From nothing came something, and from something came everything. Time began its unending march, and the gulfs of infinity blurred their yawning chasms. Awareness was born, and They were among its first … DELIGHTS
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INDICIA does only two things in life: it absorbs the foreign press and it sleeps. “Foreign press” meaning anything from statistics on global food shipping from a Dutch newspaper, to lists of corruption suspects from every EU country (including new applicants), to books like Mukhafaha ad-Dabbabat, an Arabic reprint of an old 1970s Russian textbook … SUDOKU GETS SHUFFLED
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1. I sang proudly in winter 2. in times like this 3. Just give me a minute 4. the angel at the gas station 5. We feral hurl shrine — James Diaz is the author of This Someone I Call Stranger (Indolent Books, 2018) All Things Beautiful Are Bent (Alien Buddha, 2021) and Motel Prayers … 5 COLLAGES
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IG & KINSK Igor StravinskyFellated Klaus KinskiKlaus slipped him a finskyIg slipped out the door JUDGE ROY BEAN Judge Roy Bean was in cahootsWith a mean motherfucker in cowboy bootsThey’d pick up and leave ‘fore their feet sprung rootsAnd blow a fat ass hole in your chest. And spit tobacco juiceIn your mama’s cabooseMule kick … “IG & KINSK” – “JUDGE ROY BEAN” – “AUTUMN”
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“Turning and turning in the widening gyre. The falcon cannot hear the falconer. Things fall apart, the center cannot hold.” – William Butler Yeats “History is direction- but Nature is extension- ergo, everyone gets eaten by a bear.” – Oswald Spengler “Now by virtue of this Sigil you are able to send your desire into … THE CENTER CANNOT HOLD
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Excerpted from PALE TOWNIE, by Tom Will, via APOCALYPSE CONFIDENTIAL PRESS. Available now. Suddenly the meanings change; now they readMy book through false eyelashes; all is saidIn judgment; each poem a cold documentThen sobbing witness whose meanings meantDifferent things at different times; your eyes threeBeautiful colors whisper back at meAs they judge the eyelashes of my playMaybe in … PALE TOWNIE: CANTO II, LINES 375-477
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Corporate sent an email saying we wouldn’t have a manager no more. There’d be some kind of fancy new software thing instead. The Automated Management System would order the meat for us whenever it figured we were low, set our shift schedules, and tell us when to clean the bathrooms. All we had to do … AUTOMATED MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
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Be careful is all I’m saying, fascism can creep up on ya like a commercial jingle you can’t get out of your head. One day you’re sitting there running the numbers on the Hibbing Taconite Co.’s quarterly, then next morning you wake up and all the sudden you’re goose-stepping and sieg-heiling with a joie de … GRAND RAPIDS, MN 1993
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“If you seek a pleasant peninsula, leave Detroit”. That should be the State motto, not Si Quæris Peninsulam Amœnam Circumspice, Jimmy thought, as he walked briskly through the streets of Roseville. He looked at his watch, the time was 5:20 PM and the darkness of a winter night had already descended over Gratiot Avenue, alleviated … THE BEACH BLONDE