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From Dostoevsky in Heaven [by Mitch Sisskind]
Europe will find Christ with our Russia Showing the way, which is her destiny —But America? Ha. Recall how Svidrigailov Speaks of "America" as a euphemismFor what? For suicide! Ha. So I speak ofTrump as…
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“Resolution” [by Boris Dralyuk]
Resolution i.m. J.C. That night you chose to open and to closeyour long anticipated show of shows—a solo act, for no one at that stagecould match you in your sorrow, your cold rage.Or so…
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The New York School Diaspora (Part Eighty-One) James Appleby [by Angela Ball]
I lived once beside a slaughterhouse Mornings were a thing of gears.They were regulation-compliant machinery.The trucks, mounted with cylinders, broke their neckson the switchbacks of local roads. They drained.These are the problems of living…
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How the Title of the Song Came to Him (one line at a time)
Why be at the dune?I see the juice of prune.Sigh me until June.My Lai to the wound. Try tea on the mound.Guy way, or the ground.Fry bee to the sound.Highway not too soon. Live…
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Angelo Verga: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_______________________________________________________ My Father Loves Me, He Loves Me, He Gets Down on His Knees and Hugs Me My father hugs me, and sweats we go down one step …
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“Solitude” [by Adrienne Su]
Solitude I had had my fill,but I kept devoting moredays, then weeks to it, buying books, makingno plans, as if empty slotswould well up with rain, pushing anyonewho might edge into my spaceaway as…
