600 Characters

Michael HyltonFebruary 1, 2015

600 Characters   I’m on the wrong side of the road my drive-thru coffee is going cold I check my phone once more rather than look out ahead...

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Motel Memory 1

Carly WeiserFebruary 1, 2015

Motel Memory 1   There’s got to be some kind of award for driving past motel memories, Freckled cotton sheets and hairballs on the pavement. We n...

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On The Recreation of Collective Youth

Tyler TreleaseJanuary 1, 2015

On The Recreation of Collective Youth   What do we call this humble And insane collection of souls? They who crawled out from the edges of suburban mas...

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Five Poems By Emily Blair

Emily BlairJanuary 1, 2015

Iowa or somewhere like it   forty seven & some change & no change has come in all the time I’ve watched corn & children born, bloom...

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Mirror Earth | Catherine Zeta-Narcissist

Marie Coma-ThompsonJanuary 1, 2015

Mirror Earth        We were bored   So the rapists       mowed the lawns So we were all captains    of a land ...

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Drug Study (lab rat)

Kat MooreJanuary 1, 2015

Drug Study (lab rat)   I look up my symptoms    heart flutter murmur ache in chest The ribavirin blues are gone now    seeped out    like UFOs my leg s...

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Four Poems by Yun Wei

Yun WeiJanuary 1, 2015

Unpublished Diaries of The Philae   four billion miles later I thirst for a pinch                  a hurt   ...

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THE INFLUENCE OF AN INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTS EDUCATION ON A FREELANCE JOURNALIST

Gary SinghJanuary 1, 2015

THE INFLUENCE OF AN INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTS EDUCATION ON A FREELANCE JOURNALIST   I. Medieval School Rankings   generic factory synth patches con...

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1 Study, 3 Cures, and A Ritual

Lex BobrowDecember 1, 2014

Heat Study   Fragile peonies grow from newfound subdermal magma. The gentlest wind rustles the petals into a swarm, rendering mirrors useless. This...

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The Rains Came

Charles Bane JrDecember 1, 2014

The Rains Came   The rains came and we were kept inside; it felt right to be eclipsed for the first time, to be engulfed and you close...

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North America’s Wearing Blue Jeans (for Mac DeMarco)

Justin KarcherDecember 1, 2014

North America's Wearing Blue Jeans (for Mac DeMarco)   Authorities found your body near an overgrown pond. You had been decomposing for about two we...

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Sitting with Dōgen

Cameron ConawayDecember 1, 2014

Sitting with Dōgen   It’s Christmas time here and now at Walmart Jesus is everywhere.   He’s the treasury of the eye in the cashier ...

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A Better Rebel

Karen LittleNovember 5, 2014

A Better Rebel   He demands we breach boundries beyond the call-out.   To remain present in the conversation, he prompts anyon...

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Holy Devils | Blood Crime Pieces | Aggressiveness Of Century

Seyed Morteza HamidzadehNovember 5, 2014

Holy Devils   Holy devils, Are guardians of prostitutes alleys
 In this way The residents of anger and wrath Are godess that their wildly nei...

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The Dustbin of History | In Defense of Tyrants

Craig KurtzNovember 5, 2014

The Dustbin of History   When in dire times all hope expires fate may fain the jester play and lease another act upon those characters wh...

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London | Fat Lies of Autochthony

David AndrewsNovember 5, 2014

London   Just another city not an Other city. Here, as there word is street what stone took from street as word is gristle what bone took fro...

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Comrades | Taking Frank Bidart’s Killing Stick

Anna WalshNovember 5, 2014

COMRADES     Comrades! rage on lend me your fears and lets to the black dawn bend   to battle! arm yourself in war. make metal a god sh...

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State Appeal

Debra HannaNovember 5, 2014

STATE APPEAL   I was watching the news on TV today. Hearing discerning words come my way. They talk of the terrible things leading people to be...

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When the Apocalypse Came

Vijayalakshmi HarishNovember 5, 2014

When the Apocalypse Came     there was no fire no hail no disease no insanity the earth did not heave the skies did not fail the seas did not ...

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Three Sisters | Darkness Ages Slowly

Omer ZamirNovember 5, 2014

Three Sisters   Three sisters welcomed back from war a brother just as kind and beautiful as he was before they watched him sail off towards times k...

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Four Yelp Reviews

J. BradleyOctober 2, 2014

Yelp Review - Sci Fi City We wanted to shower those we had crushes on with pelts of imaginary animals, make a catwalk from the bones of our enemies; we didn’...

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Sex Under The Microscope | Victim Stares Up At His Killer | The Truckers

John GreyOctober 2, 2014

Sex Under The Microscope   Your parents give me the once-over. Where do I hide these fingernails that have scratched your naked back? Into w...

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Earthrise | The Blue In Everything | Great Equalizer

Lindsey ClepperOctober 2, 2014

Earthrise   When are we to rise again? Us? Humanity? Then who?   Until there exists another world like ours, it is only we and that cloud...

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Four Poems

A.J. HuffmanOctober 2, 2014

from Insanity this Song   of regression screams like midnight in a white room with no echo. The tragedy of such an ideal is palpable. I can taste its ...

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Two Poems To Read While Sucking On One’s Own Cheek

Patrick ClemensOctober 2, 2014

Fear Is Venom   Spider in my bed Do not bite me Bite my toe and you are dead. This is not a threat But a reflex. Scissor chips rock Rock crushes sc...

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Mechanical | Heartland | Parchment

Steve HoodOctober 2, 2014

Mechanical   Cattle bearing crosses, corralled into satanic, dung filled stockyards. Pigs squeal, blood spills into hot dogs.   Inte...

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The House and the Home

Robert PreslarSeptember 1, 2014

I   There are two means: a. the man drives an older car for years, forgetting his name or b. the pregnant stop, and everyone you pass has no...

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I Am a Contradiction

Joseph BrockwaySeptember 1, 2014

I Am a Contradiction   I think in ways unknown to me: flashing images, colors, sporadic flying words, objects. Letters grin at me instead of familiar...

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Balance in Chaos | Return to Purity | The Butterflies Awaited | A Necessary Cycle

Lukasz GrabowskiSeptember 1, 2014

“Balance in Chaos”   Rain-spattered panes around, A translucent view outdoors. A distant flash, One, two, three. Crash, and the windows rattle. Hand...

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Quite Contrary | Losing Grip

Hannah StuartSeptember 1, 2014

Quite Contrary   There is a fine line between apathy and hope. I fight for better mileage with us: too quickly we lose inertia, like a child log-r...

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