tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22430422935748455852024-03-13T16:52:34.696-04:00Everyday GeniusAdam Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13565797788253739970noreply@blogger.comBlogger1483125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243042293574845585.post-27444134893005230642015-02-05T10:22:00.000-05:002015-02-09T09:26:16.697-05:00EndIn 2009 it occurred to me that there was nothing standing between me and an online journal called "Everyday Genius," which would feature a new piece of writing every day.<br />
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I am so grateful to all the people who made it work. To my friends, who at the beginning were willing to give me a poem or story at the spur of the moment, and later the strangers who were willing to send work as a submission, <i>thank you</i>. A very special thanks to the guest editors who came up with unique ideas and filled the days with groundbreaking work. Over the years, Everyday Genius published nearly 1500 writers. There were photos and audio and postcards and live revisions and recipes and videos and so much amazing writing.<br />
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I don't know if all good things must come to an end, but Everyday Genius must, and this is that. I hope you'll continue to join us daily at <a href="http://www.realpants.com/">Real Pants</a>.<br />
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Gratefully,<br />
Adam Robinson<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/2014_02_01_archive.html">Rahne Alexander</a></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/2013_05_01_archive.html"><span style="font-size: large;">Sarah Jean Alexander</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/2013_11_01_archive.html">Artichoke Haircut</a></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/2009_05_01_archive.html" style="font-size: %;"><span style="font-size: large;">Stephanie Barber</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/2010_01_01_archive.html">Lauren Bender</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/2012_03_01_archive.html">Andrew Borgstrom</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/2013_10_01_archive.html">Molly Brodak</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/2011_08_01_archive.html">Sommer Browning</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/2010_04_01_archive.html">Blake Butler</a></span></div>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/MarkCugini"><span style="font-size: large;">Mark Cugini</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/2013_02_01_archive.html"><span style="font-size: large;">Stephen Tully Dierks</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/2009_12_01_archive.html"><span style="font-size: large;">Sasha Fletcher</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://goingattractions.tumblr.com/">Brian Foley</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/2013_01_01_archive.html" style="font-size: %;">Ellen Frances</a><span style="font-size: %;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/2012_08_01_archive.html">Elisa Gabbert</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.nopoems.com/">Mitchell Garrard</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/2010_08_01_archive.html">Luke Goebel</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://dominicgualco.tumblr.com/">Dominc Gualco</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: %;"> </span><a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/2014_01_01_archive.html">Joe Hall</a></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/2010_12_01_archive.html"><span style="font-size: large;">Chloé Cooper Jones</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/2012_10_01_archive.html">Megan Kaminski</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/2009_08_01_archive.html">Michael Kimball 2009</a>, <a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/2012_09_01_archive.html">2012</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/2013_12_01_archive.html">Amy McDaniel 2013</a>, <a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/2014_12_01_archive.html">2014</a></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.onmetatron.com/"><span style="font-size: large;">Metatron</span></a><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/2011_10_01_archive.html">Mary Miller</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/2014_10_01_archive.html">Dolan Morgan</a></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/2010_06_01_archive.html"><span style="font-size: large;">Alec Niedenthal</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/2010_09_01_archive.html">Phu Pham</a>, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/2013_03_01_archive.html">Zack Pieper</a> </span></div>
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<a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/2012_11_01_archive.html"><span style="font-size: large;">Penina Roth</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/2009_10_01_archive.html">Lee Rourke</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/2010_02_01_archive.html">Fortunato Salazar 2010</a>, <a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/2011_07_01_archive.html">2011</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/2010_03_01_archive.html">Laura Ellen Scott</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.michaeljseidlinger.com/">Michael Seidlinger</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/2014_04_01_archive.html">Lucy K. Shaw</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/2012_12_01_archive.html">Sandra Simonds</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/2011_05_01_archive.html">Justin Sirois</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/2011_11_01_archive.html">Ben Spivey</a></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/2011_09_01_archive.html"><span style="font-size: large;">Chris Toll</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/2012_07_01_archive.html">Jackie Wang</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/2012_04_01_archive.html">Jane Wang</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/2013_08_01_archive.html">John Dermot Woods</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/2009_11_01_archive.html">Joseph Young 2009</a>, <a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/2011_01_01_archive.html">2011</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/2012_01_01_archive.html">Mike Young</a></span></div>
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Adam Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13565797788253739970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243042293574845585.post-22319288052809254372015-01-30T00:30:00.000-05:002015-01-30T00:30:01.203-05:00Kalliopi Mathios<span style="font-size: x-large;">tapping into the timestream</span><br />
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i drink more tequila and stare<br />
into the dark night of a deep set<br />
suburban backyard, one mother tree,<br />
<br />
wet dirt, and a dead rose garden<br />
i bury the leftovers, i bury them twice <br />
a clown called the cult pure family<br />
<br />
having gone missing still feels simple<br />
they’re always wearing blue suits<br />
i’m always wearing pink eyeliner<br />
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i call it feeding abomination<br />
i call it bending abandon<br />
the truth is somewhere between<br />
<br />
a chili’s parking lot and an<br />
all you can drink, all you can eat <br />
river gorge tubing trip<br />
<br />
fifteen years ago, laying flat<br />
on my back, eyes closed, listening<br />
to a relaxation tape that ordered <br />
<br />
me into the woods; i stretched<br />
on a beautiful mossy patch<br />
and never came back <br />
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Kalliopi Mathios lives in Brooklyn, NY, and is a poet, librarian, and Editor of White Rabbit, an imprint of Civil Coping Mechanisms. She curates the Blackmail reading series at Mellow Pages Library, and is the author of Horsegirl (Plain Wrap Press, 2014). Follow her on Twitter at <a href="http://twitter.com/kalliopiiiiii" target="_blank">@kalliopiiiiii</a>.</blockquote>
Adam Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13565797788253739970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243042293574845585.post-47819974137791848172015-01-29T00:30:00.001-05:002015-01-29T00:30:01.880-05:00Kyle Wing<span style="font-size: x-large;">is this modern? (coffee table diplomacy)</span><br />
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Kyle Wing is a designer and architect, going to school in Pittsburgh, PA and living in Sacramento, CA. He makes images and designs things. See his <a href="http://kylejwing.com/" target="_blank">work</a> and <a href="mailto:wing.kyle@gmail.com" target="_blank">send him pictures</a> of weird attempts at flying machines.Adam Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13565797788253739970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243042293574845585.post-67760061538763131742015-01-28T00:30:00.000-05:002015-01-28T00:30:01.632-05:00Cecilia Pavón<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Facing North</span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">An entire life
buried in the heat of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">coming back and
finding a being that lives,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">breathes, waits for
me, is my other half.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">When the birds were
eating from my hand and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I could feel that
they were of flesh,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">with blood beating
through their bewitched<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">bodies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">And I didn’t care
about the cold weather because<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">the mornings were
hot, and it felt like we were<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">living in the
nineteenth century, in the emptiness, in the humidity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Because of the
kisses everyone else gave<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">each other, and the
rapes, which were<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">games. Not real,
not martyrs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">We lived in a
horrid building, but I<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">didn’t see its
ugliness, because it was<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">surrounded by
greenery, and it was lived in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The tropics were a
dream, an amulet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Any body a
blessing, the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">emotions rays that
like lizard<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">tongues brought
together the surfaces of stigmata.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I thanked the
heavens for a window, I drank<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">that which purifies
like a gift: The pole,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">falling, and
dismantled. The wind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">erasing the shapes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I washed myself
with bleach. I never got around<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">to washing the
sheets, I wanted them to be white<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">too so I could
dream that life was a<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">dream. I robbed an
elderly woman, to put dinner<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">on the table. That
night, in my head I<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">composed odes to
beauty and I wanted<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">to throw myself
into the lake of fever. At the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">About the Author</i></b>Cecilia Pavón was born in Mendoza, Argentina, in 1973. She
has lived in Buenos Aires since 1992. She holds a B.A. in Literature from the
University of Buenos Aires. In 2012, she published her collected poetry
in <i>Un hotel con mi nombre</i> (<i>A Hotel With My Name</i>). Her
other publications include <i>27 poemas con nombres de persona </i>(2010),
the ebook <i>Once Sur </i>(2012), and the short-story
collection <i>Los sueños no tienen copyright</i> (2010). She has two
forthcoming translations into English to be published in 2015: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Belleza y Felicidad</i> (Sand Paper Press)
and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Hotel With my Name</i> (Scrambler
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">About the Translator</i></b>Jacob Steinberg was born in Stony Brook, New York, in 1989.
He has published the full-length poetry collections <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Magulladón</i> (2012), <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ante ti se
arrodilla mi silencio</i> (2013), and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Before
You Kneels My Silence</i> (2014). As a translator he has worked with Cecilia
Pavón, CAConrad, and Mario Bellatin, among others. He currently resides in New
York.</blockquote>
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Adam Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13565797788253739970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243042293574845585.post-78599867380049564142015-01-27T00:30:00.000-05:002015-01-27T00:30:00.045-05:00Dalton Day<span style="font-size: x-large;">Take the Body Apart</span><br />
<br />
Not as command <br />
or plea <br />
<br />
Lot of fog in the trees today<br />
until I eat it up<br />
How much wolf am I not<br />
<br />
I stay awake<br />
memorizing paw prints<br />
<br />
& then I wake up<br />
Happy to be here<br />
<br />
I like your name<br />
when I say it<br />
I’ve never said a bird before<br />
<br />
You said wind<br />
& I didn’t run anywhere<br />
<br />
Body & wind<br />
<br />
& I didn’t run nowhere<br />
<br />
I’m too possible to flood<br />
You made that<br />
You made loud of me<br />
<br />
As question<br />
<br />
How hard can it be<br />
to eat water<br />
<br />
Say that again I say I say<br />
<br />
& mean it<br />
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Dalton Day is a Pushcart nominated poet & editor of FreezeRay Poetry. His work has been featured in PANK, Hobart, The Millions, & Jellyfish among others. He is the author of Supernova Factory as well as the forthcoming Fake Knife. He can be found at <a href="http://myshoesuntied.tumblr.com/">myshoesuntied.tumblr.com</a> & on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/lilghosthands" target="_blank">@lilghosthands</a>. He’s absolutely terrified.</blockquote>
Adam Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13565797788253739970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243042293574845585.post-49907603723389847412015-01-26T00:30:00.000-05:002015-01-26T00:30:00.062-05:00Tantra Bensko<span style="font-size: x-large;">Virus on Fire</span><br />
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The most beautiful man you have seen is part tree. He lifts his arms slowly in front of the crowd around him. He can barely hold them up, but doing so keeps him trim. His finely formed, cheeks, square, with nice rounded edges, catch all the sun they can. His eyes are deep but you know he couldn't feel you if he reaches out. His hands extend into grey cutanaeous horns, waste material of warts that just keep growing. </div>
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He lifts his feet, with their roots, while people cheer; that gives him strong leg muscles, but he's not muscle-bound, as he can't do much work around the place. He keeps to himself, and you want to tell him stories in the corner. Everyone else is busy. Everyone else has felt many women. </div>
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You walk up to a tree and hug it, petting its bark, and glance at him. You love trees. </div>
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You wonder if anyone has ever put her arms around him. His waist is fine. People stand back, so they don't catch his virus. </div>
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You hear someone say it's because his mother must have made love with his father in a tree. But his father left when he saw the branches coming in. And his mother won't talk. Only the man's brother pours his bath, and sews special clothes he dresses him in, and gives him a hand-rolled cigarrette stuck in a stick he hollowed out; he places the contrivance between the tight branches in between the tree-fingers.</div>
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One of the other freaks performing moves his head back and forth lugubriously, making his nose, which flops down below his chin, waves squishily. Another one balances a ball on his head like a seal, and claps his malformed flippers. Tree-man can only perform with them once a month and you can see why. After he curls into a ball, uncrouching slowly, raising his giant hands to the sky, and standing on his toe roots, looking up, he becomes a little more tree. He can barely move afterwards. His sap is running downward, but you want to make it rise for you. If he could just get better, he would have so much more life to live. You would cook for him. You would clean him. </div>
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You look in the mirror at the trading circle and make faces while you dance to the drums. You like to make people laugh. One time you drew an outline of your face on the mirror. It was easy to draw it to make it look just like you. But you shouldn't call that cheating. Sometimes the sunshine feels so mellow on your face you can hardly stand it. You barely sneak open an eye, to look at Tree-man to see if he notices the angle of the sun on your sensuous face.</div>
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His brother is giving him a cigarette in a hollowed out stick to revive him. The cigarette catches his hand branches on fire. His eyes are closed as he takes a drag, meaning he can't see your dramatic look of horror, and he doesn't feel the horns at all on fire. Until the heat informs his face. His eyes get big and he screeches and rolls on the ground. But the smoldering has gone deep. Like peat moss under the ground, his brother says it will be ever really put out. </div>
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You watch, and you wait. </div>
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Some of the limbs grow brittle and break off, some harden. His brother tries making one into charcoal but it doesn't work at all; he thinks of eating it powdered to settle his stomach but the thought upsets it instead. </div>
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A fire inside makes the tree man more poetic. More smoldering. He looks at you, as his hand becomes closer to being able to feel you. As perhaps his self confidence grows, as he can wave now, relatively smoothly. The fire in his hand would leave an imprint on your body if he touched you long. Your naked body. Your long, narrow back. Your low riding hips. </div>
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It would say you are his. Only he could leave a mark that shape. His hand grows smaller, and more beautiful, the other one still tree. The small one looks like a pine cone that went mad. You make sure he can smell you. You stand close to him, as you are fertile. </div>
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Your mother always told you it's important to plant trees. You give him a look you hope he understands: you want him to plant a baby tree inside you. You want it to grow, and take you over. It is already made of fire.</div>
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Tantra Bensko teaches fiction writing with UCLA X Writing Program, Writers College, and her academy. Her newest book is an illustrated Neo-Noir Slipstream novella from ELJ Publishing. Her stories nestle into magazines and anthologies like Strange Little Girls, Women Writing the Weird I and II, NonBinary Review, Zymbol, and Holdfast. She loves life in Berkeley. <a href="http://lucidmembrane.weebly.com/">http://lucidmembrane.weebly.com/</a></blockquote>
Adam Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13565797788253739970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243042293574845585.post-77980581184731961552015-01-23T00:30:00.000-05:002015-01-23T00:30:00.092-05:00MH Rowe<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;">
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The light is a curious bright and solar. I feel like my body is changing its font size. The lungs don’t know what to do with water. Entire ecologies where lunchtime astronauts, sitting there with their blankets tucked around their engineering degrees, laugh out loud at the nowhere of outer spaces and all the sea dark. It’s very old fashioned to be distracted by hyperlinks. It’s very old fashioned to goof up and poof like space dust. To support the intricate apparatus of heat, I have several limbs. I protect all the bacteria that live on me. I’m not lonely. It’s just hard to turn into the thing on the last page of the instructions.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent;">MH Rowe's fiction and poems have appeared in The Collapsar, Black Warrior Review, Juked, Spork, DIAGRAM, Timber, Jellyfish, and ILK, among other places. He lives and writes in Minneapolis, Minnesota.</span></blockquote>
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Adam Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13565797788253739970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243042293574845585.post-89998562559472149172015-01-22T00:30:00.000-05:002015-01-22T00:30:00.810-05:00Zoe Dzunko<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="line-height: 120%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">IRL (Summer of Distance)</span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Avenir Book";">If only to know this <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Avenir Book";">unknowable thing, like<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Avenir Book";">can the body hope to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Avenir Book";">be anything more than <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Avenir Book";">measurable edges,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Avenir Book";">fifteen colours, a name<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Avenir Book";">and a date. It is not<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Avenir Book";">enough to find the soft<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Avenir Book";">skin behind the kneecap,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Avenir Book";">caress it in moments <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Avenir Book";">of tenderness; the lined<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Avenir Book";">palm of mystery goes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Avenir Book";">on collecting its dumb<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Avenir Book";">DNA memories from the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Avenir Book";">bodies it skims, urging<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Avenir Book";">close, closer. </span></i><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Avenir Book";">I know you <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Avenir Book";">like the bent water vision<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Avenir Book";">of the legs that became,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Avenir Book";">so quickly, not my own;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Avenir Book";">I know you like the black <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Avenir Book";">screen you dull to at night,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Avenir Book";">effacing a days worth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Avenir Book";">of experience. And<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Avenir Book";">ever still, the longing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Avenir Book";">to know a body down<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Avenir Book";">to its pixels, where they<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Avenir Book";">form their squares from the soft <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Avenir Book";">human curves of a cheek;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Avenir Book";">the warmth of an ear, lost <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Avenir Book";">in twenty-three rose-hued <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Avenir Book";">variations; limbal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222;">Zoe Dzunko is
the author of <i>All of the Men I Have Never Loved</i> (Dancing Girl
Press), <i>Bruise Factory</i> (NAP) and <i>Wet Areas</i> (Maverick
Duck Press). She is the Poetry & Short Prose Editor of <i>The Lifted
Brow</i>, an Assistant Editor for <i>Coconut Magazine</i> and, with
Sarah Jean Grimm, founded<i> Powder Keg</i>, an online poetry quarterly.
Her work has recently appeared in <i>Guernica, H_NGM_N, Bodega, The
Fanzine</i>, <i>Two Serious Ladies</i> et al. She’s online at: </span><span style="mso-field-code: " HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/zoedzunko\.tumblr\.com\/\0022 \\t \0022_blank\0022 ";"><u><span style="background: white; color: #1155cc;">zoedzunko.tumblr.com</span></u></span></blockquote>
Adam Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13565797788253739970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243042293574845585.post-34594979372738585812015-01-21T00:30:00.000-05:002015-01-21T00:30:01.155-05:00Peter Berghoef<span style="font-size: x-large;">Woolly mammoths living lavishly in a park I designed</span><br />
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">it takes up most of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Siberia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">I've been snacking<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">wearing out the joystick<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">landing helicopters on purely hypothetical islands<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">sandwiches most men would kill for<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">on plates engineered to bring forth the best in both boys and girls<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">some kind of engine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">the fuel could be mice feet or gnarled bones bought at estate sales<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">a car left running after the groceries have been brought in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">or after a trip to the store has been abandoned<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">a man can only do so much<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">a list of objects to resurrect <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">those would be the basic rules of the universe I'm talking about<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">if you can imagine that<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">the cash from a few machines is all it would take<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Peter Berghoef lives in Holland, Michigan, with his wife Erin and their cat Charles. His chapbook "News of the Haircut" is currently available from Greying Ghost. </span></blockquote>
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Adam Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13565797788253739970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243042293574845585.post-12972827882805906872015-01-20T00:30:00.000-05:002015-01-20T00:30:02.860-05:00Brian Oliu<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;">
<b><span style="color: #222222; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">ORLANDO MAGIC</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">There is a room for
freaks in basketball, but not too many: we cannot disturb the status quo—they
must be sideshows, reasons to bring your family, to put popcorn in the hands of
as many on-lookers as possible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">This was never a
game for someone like me—flat-footed, slow-footed, every pivot a lumbering. The
jerseys wouldn’t fit over my body: they should be big enough for someone my
age, they would say, and it was true—I was an anomaly, a statue of clumsy. I
would wear the shirt meant for the coaches—a man’s shirt, despite being nothing
but: someone who couldn’t do anything except sit in front of televisions, one
hand on the controller and the other one sticky from chocolate that had melted
between the grooves of my fingerprints.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">I hated Shaquille
O’Neal—I hated how large he was, how everyone in suburban New Jersey loved him
despite his size, how easily allegiances shifted. I hated how easy this game
was for him: how someone that large can make the world bend to his will, how he
had the luxury to operate via a different set of rules while I was being kicked
in the stomach—that I couldn’t feel pain beyond the layers of fat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">Shaq would
disappear in later iterations of the game; his likeness becoming too large for
the game of basketball—his multitudes sprawling out in gushes. O’Neal
negotiated a deal separate from the one made between the player’s union and the
association, and thus the price tag was too expensive to pay to include him in
the game. The audacity of this—to believe that basketball was simply one thing
that he can do in this world: that there is still so much of him to be put
towards filming movies, recording albums.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">I read an article
about him when I was younger; about how when he was a child he would
slouch—about how all he wanted to be was normal. I shared this too: there is no
virtue in being someone that everyone else is not.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">A memory: a school
field-trip to a museum of the body. At the center of the museum, a large scale
version of the human heart that children can walk through—they can touch the
insides of ventricles, they can spin around in an atrium. There are vessels
too—small tubes that children can crawl through, that they can pretend to be
something smaller than what they are, that they can be parts of an amazing
hole. As I crouched to fit, a woman grabbed my arm, told me that I was too
large to fit—that I could get stuck. I stood next to models of other hearts, of
animals larger and smaller than I was—they spiraled towards the sky. There must
be a way to take my heart out from underneath all of this virtue and muscle and
see where it belongs—in a world where I am the largest bird, but the smallest
ape, there is nothing but extremes to discuss. I have always been disappointed
in the scale of things, of percentiles, of <i>where I stands</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">Another fieldtrip:
one of medical oddities. It is where I will go when I die. They will put me in
a glass case, they will have my skull on the ground where children can open up
the bottom of my jaw. The children will make me talk—make me say things I never
could when I was alive. There will be a body next to mine—it will be O’Neal’s.
They will be amazed that he is here; that this museum could afford such a
priceless artifact, that it should be elsewhere, draped in gold, in a vault
somewhere, hooked up to a machine that makes the man animatronic—telling
wide-eyed jokes with a flashing nose. Instead, children will stand inside of
our bodies; they will imagine what it would’ve been like to live this large—to
be this small inside. I will finally understand. I will finally contain
multitudes. I will not move from this place. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222;">Brian Oliu is
originally from New Jersey and currently teaches at the University of Alabama.
He is the author of So You Know It’s Me (Tiny Hardcore Press, 2011), a series
of Craigslist Missed Connections; Leave Luck to Heaven (Uncanny Valley Press,
2014), an ode to 8-bit video games; and i/o (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2015), a
memoir in the form of a computer virus. His works in progress deal with
professional wrestling, long distance running, and NBA Jam (not all at once).</span></blockquote>
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Adam Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13565797788253739970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243042293574845585.post-66128112307697584252015-01-19T12:24:00.001-05:002015-01-19T12:24:18.305-05:00Laura Theobald<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>from </i>space</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black;">today is stupid. the earth has
spun around a full time and around the sun a full time and what is the star
spinning around? the earth is spinning and no one’s feeling it. the planet is a
thing and my love too. someone has already correctly predicted how the world
will end. and a lot of people have died. a lot of people have died and even
more people have lived. and you asked me if i thought we were the only ones.
and you asked me because you are a jackal and a baby baby jackal</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222;">Laura Theobald
is a poetry MFA student at LSU and assistant editor for </span><span style="mso-field-code: " HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/spookygirlfriendpress\.com\/\0022 \\t \0022_blank\0022 ";"><u><span style="background: white; color: #1155cc;">Spooky Girlfriend Press</span></u></span><span style="background: white; color: #222222;">. Her recent work has appeared or is
forthcoming on <i>Hobart</i>, <i>Sink Review</i>, and <i>Tenderloin</i>.
Her chapbook <i><span style="mso-field-code: " HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/www\.h-ngm-n\.com\/chaps\/\0022 \\t \0022_blank\0022 ";"><u><span style="color: #1155cc;">eraser poems</span></u></span></i> is available from
H_NGM_N. </span> <span style="color: #222222;">More on <span style="mso-field-code: " HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/lauratheobald\.net\/laura_theobald\.html\0022 \\t \0022_blank\0022 ";"><u><span style="color: #1155cc;">website</span></u></span> and <span style="mso-field-code: " HYPERLINK \0022https\:\/\/twitter\.com\/lidleida\0022 \\t \0022_blank\0022 ";"><u><span style="color: #1155cc;">Twitter</span></u></span>.</span></blockquote>
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Adam Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13565797788253739970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243042293574845585.post-13212214346319247292015-01-16T00:30:00.000-05:002015-01-19T12:23:43.359-05:00Nick Sturm<div class="MsoNormal">
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Skin is tears, it says in my sleep, & I’m touching every
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Or at least that’s how it feels, like bass fishing. Like
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There’s a song, “Summer Breeze,” but no I won’t do that.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anything else, or debt. The view from the garden rains less
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In the painting. There is no clarity & I dim the lamp <o:p></o:p></div>
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To strain the whiteness of my screen, my diamond.<o:p></o:p></div>
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At the party there’s a feminine allegiance, & we party.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’M A MATURE PERSON, BUT MY FANTASIES<o:p></o:p></div>
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THEY’RE TOTALLY UNBALANCED. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I spill Lacroix on my exotic nature. Everything else, <o:p></o:p></div>
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Or bored. The cruelty fucking sings to me. Fucking <o:p></o:p></div>
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Vapors sing. A soft taco supreme. & whatever<o:p></o:p></div>
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I won’t do that. What’s in this duffle bag<o:p></o:p></div>
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Makes me feel fine, & I drag it through the parking lot<o:p></o:p></div>
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Singing, blowing through the jasmine in my mind.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="color: #212121;">Nick Sturm is the author
of <i>How We Light</i>, from H_NGM_N BKS, as well as a number of chapbooks
including, with Wendy Xu, <i>I Was Not Even Born </i>(Coconut) and,
with Carrie Lorig, <i>Labor Day </i>(Forklift, Ohio). Poems have
appeared in Black Warrior, Typo, jubilat, PEN, Sixth Finch, and Best American
Nonrequired Reading 2014.</span></blockquote>
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Adam Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13565797788253739970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243042293574845585.post-8607971051448094602015-01-15T00:30:00.000-05:002015-01-15T00:30:00.712-05:00Jonah Barrett<div class="BodyA">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">Shell of a Mom<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We didn’t wanna come to the
aquarium. We wanted to go to the boardwalk instead. The boardwalk had all kinds
of gross rides and smelly food stands and cute boys with crooked teeth that
smiled at you when you looked at them. Ava and I had saved up all month for
this day out; we were going to get sick on the Zipper and eat crappy elephant
ears and purchase shit clothing that we’d regret later that night. The aquarium
didn’t have that. But that’s where we were.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“This’ll be great,” her mother said
as we stood in line. Ivy. Glorious Ivy. Doing us a favor. An unwanted favor.
“When was the last time you took me to the aquarium? I bet the belugas are all
grown up by now.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I don’t care, Mom,” Ava rolled her
eyes. Perfect stereotype of a spoiled fifteen year-old girl. Ava was really
neither fifteen nor spoiled. But she played the part well. It was that
attitude, that was how you made it in this world. I wondered if Ivy had been
like that at our age.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ava gave out a heavy sigh as soon as
we got through the aquarium doors. I kept quiet, still embarrassed over the
fact that Ivy had paid for my ticket. “Let me get it Sara,” she held her hand
up as I started to protest, trying to be an adult for the first time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“It’s only money,” she said. She
smiled. Three adult tickets please. ADULT. But we weren’t adults, this was a
play-date. This was something Ivy missed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ava groaned when Ivy suggested the
touch pools in the main entrance area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was a large darkened room with children running around. They pressed
their curious little hands and noses up to the large fish tank in the center,
its blue glow stretching out all around it. To the left, on the sides of the
walls with murals of aquatic life, were the touch pools that Ivy talked about.
I could smell them from where we stood.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Oh, c’mon!” Ivy said. “You used to love
playing with those things as a kid.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Yes, as a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">child</i>, Mom,” Ava said, watching some children pick up a starfish. A
look of disgust crossed her face. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I was
like that once.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ivy shrugged. “It’s still cool. It
hasn’t like, changed or anything since,” she said. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“It’s for little kids.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Who cares!” Ivy laughed at her
daughter. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ava doesn’t get it</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I just stood there, like an idiot,
unsure of what to do. I never knew what to do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Dum-Dee-Dum!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A chime went off throughout the
aquarium’s loudspeakers. Somewhere along the line the orderly monotone
announcer had been replaced by a recording of an over-eager twenty-something: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Hey guys, the dolphin show is about to
start in about five minutes! You can still grab your seats over at the Cetacean
Cove. But hurry fast! Our resident dolphins Annie and Gertie can’t wait
forever! <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Also, have
you checked out our new ammonite exhibit? It’s pre-historical! You don’t wanna
miss out on this new exciting discovery, on exhibit now at the heart of the
aquarium. Don’t pass up on this once in a lifetime experience!”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The rest of the aquarium could only
be accessed through a long darkened hallway just after the touch pools, its
corridors littered with tanks built into the walls. That’s where the jellyfish
were. Initially Ava strolled through to the very end; she hated enclosed
spaces, especially dark ones. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Ava! Come back!” her mother called.
“You’re missing the jellyfish!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ava stopped. I could hear her sigh
from the other side. Her footsteps echoed throughout the hall as Ivy and I
inspected the first tank. “They’re just jellyfish. You see one you’ve seen them
all,” Ava said. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“So not true, dude. Look at this
one,” Ivy said, pointing to a tiny individual only centimeters away from her
finger. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Olindias formosa</i>. The Flower
Hat Jelly. It looked less like a jellyfish and more like a floating brain with
tentacles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“He’s so adorable, I wanna take him
home!” Ivy said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Where would we even keep him?” Ava
said, her arms crossed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ivy kept quiet, continuing to stare
at the tiny six-inch brain. “I dunno,” she said. She moved onto the next tank
after a few moments, and we followed her like lost children. “This is so cool!”
Ivy said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It was like that for most of the
day. The amphibian house, the sea horses, the tropical fishes; Ivy wanted to
inspect them all, Ava just trying to get through as fast as possible. Mother
and daughter fought the entire way through.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Will you just chill?” Ivy asked. We
were standing over a large tank featuring the local marine fauna of the
Californian coast. They were the least impressive creatures I had seen that
day, mostly just a bunch of boring fish without color. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">am</i> being chill, Mom. You’re just being boring,” Ava said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“What’s the rush?” Ivy said. “We got
all day. The aquarium closes at ten.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ava pointed at me. “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">We</i> had plans that didn’t exactly involve
staying here til ten,” she said. Ivy looked over at me and I held my hands up
in defense. “Totally negotiable,” I said. Ava shot me a frustrated scowl. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ivy shrugged. “Fine,” she said. “If
this is boring you then you’re totally free to leave, even if I did pay for
your tickets...”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ava sighed. “Don’t do that.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“What?” her mother said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“You’re making me feel guilty.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“No I’m not.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Yes you are.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I’m not!” Ivy chuckled.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Mother!”<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></i>They stared at one another, Ava agitated,
Ivy’s face completely neutral.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Okay then,” Ava said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Fine,” said Ivy. “Have fun at the
stupid boardwalk that you’ve seen like, a million times.” She chuckled again. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sara’s</i>
never been to the boardwalk. We’re going to spend the day shopping,” Ava said. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Your friend’s not gonna remember
those stupid stores, Ava. She’s gonna remember coming to the aquarium and
seeing all this cool stuff,” said Ivy. She turned to me. “Right?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I looked over at Ava. “It <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is</i> pretty cool,” I said. “Didn’t the
announcer say something about, like, prehistoric squid?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Ammonites!” Ivy exclaimed with
excitement. “And they’ve got a freakin’ coelacanth too!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Coelacanths are fucking ugly,” Ava
said. She looked back and forth from me to Ivy and shook her head. “Whatever,”
she said. She walked away in the other direction. I looked over at Ivy, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sorry</i>, and began to follow my friend. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Bye!” I said, turning back. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Bye,” said Ivy, a bit of a casual
sadness in her voice. She turned back to the tank, looking over the boring
fish.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We brushed through the crowds for
awhile, Ava leading the way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Where’s the nearest exit?” she kept
wondering aloud. I would point out the large maps––interactive touchscreens
that sprouted from the ground like monoliths––whenever she said that, but she
waved me off. “I can find it myself,” she said. She swiftly cut through a
Korean family admiring the otters. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Excuse</i>
us,” she said. I followed behind her, apologizing as I went.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dum-Dee-Dum!</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Hey
everyone, another dolphin show is just about to start in twenty minutes.
This’ll be Annie and Gertie’s last show of the day, so don’t miss your chance
to check out the antics of our favorite fun-loving cetaceans!”</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“She always does this. She ruins my
plans and makes me do stuff that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">she</i>
wants to do,” Ava said. Her brisk walk had calmed down into a steady pace.
“Like, when do I get to go out and do stupid shit I’l regret later? She’s not
letting me grow up and it’s stupid.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“She misses you, Ava,” I said, not
being very constructive. We entered a darkened room, a massive thing with wide
ceilings and a gigantic tank in the center. The water was filled with a number
of writhing sharks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Yeah, well... She needs to let go,”
said Ava, looking out towards the animals. We walked forward. A crowd of
parents and children already surrounded the tank. Ava and I stood behind a
cluster of little girls, their faces pressed up against the glass just inches
away from a Blacktip Reef. A larger fish, a fat grouper, lurked in the shadows
behind it. I wondered if it was going to eat the smaller shark.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ava sighed. “I don’t actually hate
this place as much as I let on,” she said. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I laughed. “I kinda figured.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Shut up.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Another shark––much bigger than the
previous one––glided past us just over our heads, a few remoras attached to its
underside. One of the girls gasped in amazement. “Holy <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">shit</i>,” another said. Her mother scolded her a few feet away from
us. We looked at one another and chuckled. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“It’s not that I hate my mother or
anything. She’s like, my favorite person I guess,” Ava said. I nodded. She
continued. “But like, I dunno. She just drives me fucking crazy sometimes. It’s
like I can’t even be around her without getting really annoyed, and I have no
idea why.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The mother near us gave a dirty
look, probably for having said “fucking” near her kids. We began to walk off.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I understand,” I told her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“It’s like she suffocates me.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Past the gaggle of families we found
a passageway that led from the sharks to another viewing area, brighter than
the shark room but still dimly-lit. “Welcome to Cetacean Cove!” a large sign
said, adorned on either side by a cartoon dolphin and whale. A wall of glass
that ran down to the floor greeted us as we entered, surrounding a pool of blue
water. Light danced from the surface outside through the waves and into the
room below, every visible surface in motion with light. A beluga swam by at a
steady pace. We walked up to the glass as it slid past us towards the edge of
the enclosure. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I hope she knows I don’t hate her,”
Ava said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I scoffed. “Don’t be dramatic.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The white whale came up to the rocky
edge and dove down to the bottom. We watched as it flipped over and began to
make its way to the other side, keeping to the floor of its habitat. It flipped
over again when it met the other edge and repeated itself, swimming past the
windows once more and up to the top of the opposite end. It wasn’t even
swimming in circles, but a triangle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We watched the animal do this for
several minutes before Ava spoke up. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“It’s so sad,” she said. “There used
to be two of them when I was little.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“What happened to the other one?” I
asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She kept quiet, continuing to stare
at the captive whale. “I don’t know,” she said. She looked out past the glass
for another moment, then up at the surface of the water. I could make out the
shapes of people past the choppy waves, up at the outdoor observation area
above us. They cheered as the beluga cut its routine and came up for air. The
animal dove back down almost immediately. Ava sighed, tired.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Let’s go find her,” she said. We
continued on, leaving the beluga behind. Up the wide carpeted ramp leading away
from the whale exhibit we could hear people. Crowds. This place was always
filled with crowds. We turned a corner and came into the heart of the aquatic
zoo. The main attraction. Grande finale.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A glass dome sprouted up in the very
center, and the people gathered around it. The over-excited twenty-something’s
voice boomed throughout the center.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"Our
resident ammonites Mork and Mindy are the newest members to our aquarium! Known
scientifically as </i>Cleoniceras cavades<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">,
these weird-looking cephalopods are actually living fossils, having recently
been discovered in 2013 by a group of sea divers off the coast of Indonesia!
Until this mind-blowing discovery, ammonites were originally thought to be
extinct along with the dinosaurs 65 millions years ago. Just think, Mork and
Mindy's great-great-great-great-great grandparents could have been swimming
alongside huge prehistoric reptiles such as the giant turtle Archelon or the
aquatic predator Mosasaurus!"</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We made our way through the crowd.
Some people moved away after having their fill. “It’s just a fancy squid,” I
heard a man’s voice say. As usual, Ava led the way. A few minutes of squeezing
by and dodging elbows paid off, and we found ourselves directly in front of the
glass border.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"Mork
and Mindy are fast moving nektonic carnivores, meaning that we have to feed
them a steady diet of smaller fish up to five times a day! You can see them
swimming throughout the exhibit. A well-stocked dome equals a super-happy
ammonite!"</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There they were, near the top right,
drifting around without a care. Their flesh pink and their amber shells
glistening in the artificial light. The people wondered and stared and took
photographs with their smartphones. The ammonites swayed to the bottom, their
tentacles flitting about as if testing the water. A large fish swam past them,
looking like it had just crawled out of the mud.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"Our
crazy ammonites are also joined by their Indonesian coelacanth friend Mearth,
scientifically known as </i>Latimera menadoensis<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">. Coelacanths are also classified as living fossils, also thought
extinct alongside the dinosaurs until their rediscovery in 1938. A second
species of coelacanth happened to be discovered in 1999."</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The coelacanth wandered slowly
throughout the dome. It was much slower than the other two; I was reminded of
the grouper back at the shark exhibit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Both
ammonites and coelacanths have </i>seriously<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> delicate systems, originating from the same
pelagic ecosystem found in the deep Indian Ocean waters. Just transferring them
here was such a challenge! But utilizing a system of pressurized submersibles
and decompression chambers, our prehistoric residents are happy to make
themselves home in our specially equipped biome-dome!"<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I phased out staring at the ancient
fish when one of the ammonites - Mindy, or maybe Mork - popped up in front of
us. Its tentacles snatched up one of the tiny fish that inhabited the
enclosure, and we watched the shelled cephalopod chew up its prey. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A few in the crowd gasped, and I
found myself being crowded by a number of people trying to capture the moment
forever on Instagram. Ava and I worked our way out of the miniature mob. We
moved down a little to a spot at the dome that wasn’t so populated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And there was Ivy. She stood facing
the dome, her neck craned up towards the coelacanth, handbag barely held by
loose fingers attached to numb hands connected to limp arms; she was smiling.
The coelacanth paused in front of her, sinking a little when it did so.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Hello Mr. Coelacanth,” she said.
The fish continued on. “Or Mearth,” she added. “I guess everyone here calls you
Mearth.” Ivy turned and spotted us. Her eyebrows went up. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Hey!” she said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Hey,” Ava said back. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“So I guess you didn’t go to the
boardwalk after all.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“No. I mean, we were already here I guess.
So like, whatever.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Cool,” Ivy said, forgoing passive
aggression. She turned back to the prehistoric animals. “You guys see anything
neat?” she asked after a moment. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ava shrugged. “Some sharks. I think
there’s only one beluga left now. It looked lonely.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“That sucks. They shouldn’t do that,
they should let it go.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I know right?” Ava said. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“It’s stupid.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“God.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>They watched the ammonites and
coelacanth for another minute. I stayed a step behind, not wanting to intrude.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"As
nifty as our prehistoric pals might be, both coelacanths and ammonites are
critically endangered species. Your donations and contributions go directly
towards research concerning these strange and wonderful creatures. With your
help, we can bring more prehistoric wonders to aquariums like this one and
educate the public about these rare and exciting animals!"</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“D’ya wanna go get ice cream?” said
Ivy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ava looked down and smiled. “Sure.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Do <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">you</i> want ice cream?” Ivy asked me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I smiled too. “Yeah, that’d be
great.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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lives in the heart of the Tenino forest with a number of woodland critters. He
can usually be found stressing out about something he's not doing. Speaking of
thing that stress him out, his latest creation is a queer romcom webseries
about dreams, which can be found at <a href="http://vimeo.com/channels,800609">vimeo.com/channels,800609</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I wish every day that I had her morals,<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Charley Peterson </b>was
born in Brooklyn, NY. She is an MFA candidate at Sarah Lawrence College.</blockquote>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
Adam Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13565797788253739970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243042293574845585.post-71479441611673385152015-01-13T00:30:00.000-05:002015-01-13T00:30:00.551-05:00Bradley Danielson<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Going Home</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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Consider Mother, whose arms stretched forever. She cradled
the galaxy and when she sang, the stars listened. Mother lost her voice after
eating human meat. The stars faded away. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Consider Father, whose legs flexed forever. He crushed the
galaxy beneath his feet and put the pieces back together. Father lost his
mastery after becoming the monster. The darkness came.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Consider Sister, whose heart consecrated forever. Her
divinity could move the galaxy, awake the sun and summon the horizon. Sister
lost her charms after witnessing terror. The night stayed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Consider Home, where bodies entangled forever. They created
their own galaxy and used the darkness for light. Home, lost in shadows,
unraveled into melodrama and mythology. Only a lightning rod remained.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<b><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Bradley
Danielson </span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">live
in Lynnwood, Washington. He was born in Twin Falls, Idaho.</span></blockquote>
Adam Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13565797788253739970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243042293574845585.post-82811583728718647792015-01-12T00:30:00.000-05:002015-01-12T00:30:01.141-05:00Stan Wallden<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">Celebrations</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you begin to run with men, don’t forget spider webs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Don’t forget memory. Carry a golden anklet tight<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">around your wrist. When you battle atop skyscrapers,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">remember your promises. Remember your caretaker.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Cross your eyes and the road appears paved with <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">crocodiles. Use my skull as a stepping stone and keep <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">the solitude close to your chest. Keep the curtain drawn<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">when you leave your head. Breathe without my lungs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">so you can watch burdens dissappear. When you plunder <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">my charity, celebrate regifting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Celebrate my grave; for once,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I will not change.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Stan
Wallden </b>wishes
he were a dog. He writes poetry and works with at risk youth in the Pacific
Northwest. You can find further work and dog lamentations <a href="https://twitter.com/SlipperyBassett">@SlipperyBassett</a>.</span></blockquote>
Adam Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13565797788253739970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243042293574845585.post-58161040126822400722015-01-09T00:30:00.000-05:002015-01-09T00:30:00.103-05:00Gavin Plesko<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">hello world.</b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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"<br />
public static void main(String[] args]{<br />
<br />
System.out.println("knowledge/You can read/surely can’t be/reality./It was
play/I killed/and brought life with nothing.");<br />
}<br />
"<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<b><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Gavin
Plesko </span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">studies computer science
and philosophy at The Evergreen State College.</span></blockquote>
Adam Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13565797788253739970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243042293574845585.post-65255824158429013922015-01-08T00:30:00.000-05:002015-01-08T00:30:00.915-05:00Chelsea Harlan<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Paul Bunyan’s Beauty
Secrets<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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There will be no thunderstorms tomorrow<o:p></o:p></div>
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for the first time since the last time<o:p></o:p></div>
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that happened. Let me talk to Paul Bunyan,<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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I know he is there I can see him a mile,<o:p></o:p></div>
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no, ten miles, away. The inarguable best thing<o:p></o:p></div>
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about being big is that your vision includes more<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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of the future and of what’s coming ahead<o:p></o:p></div>
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at you at the speed of life on fire, light<o:p></o:p></div>
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sashaying like a flirt between the clouds.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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But there will be no thunderstorms<o:p></o:p></div>
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anymore so I sleep outside just fine<o:p></o:p></div>
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trusting that the brawny giant will watch me<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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as he watches all small things stirring<o:p></o:p></div>
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on mulch mattresses. Bunyan and his Babe<o:p></o:p></div>
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make a researcher out of me in that<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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I have to look up. At his enormous feet<o:p></o:p></div>
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I am praying and looking up whispering<o:p></o:p></div>
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how good a practical joke God is<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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or isn’t, how humorous my hubris.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And Bunyan bays, low, loud: “Climb up<o:p></o:p></div>
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the rungs in the folds of my denim<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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I can’t hear you way down on the ground.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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I shimmy up his boot, his rolled ankle<o:p></o:p></div>
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overalls. I ascend Bunyan’s torso until<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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I am in thigh-high wading in his chest hairs<o:p></o:p></div>
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which are actual cattails. On his shoulder<o:p></o:p></div>
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there is a chair. I sit and stare at his profile.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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He tells me, “There will be no thunderstorms<o:p></o:p></div>
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tomorrow or the next day. Have a look<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
for yourself. See how we are moving<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
standing still.” Before me the fields sunbathe,<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
yawning, opening up like an unlicked envelope.<o:p></o:p></div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<o:p> </o:p><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Chelsea Harlan</b>
grew up in Appalachian Virginia but lives in Brooklyn now, with everyone else.
She recently completed an architectural intensive at Columbia University and is
currently applying for an MFA in poetry. Her collaborative book of poems
“Cowboy Coffee” premiered at the NY Art Book Fair 2014 at MoMA PS1. More stuff
<a href="http://cargocollective.com/chelseaclaireharlan" target="_blank">here</a>.</blockquote>
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Adam Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13565797788253739970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243042293574845585.post-1676326060105573582015-01-07T00:30:00.000-05:002015-01-07T00:30:02.539-05:00David D. Paul<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">Pest</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I broke my nose against a concrete wall<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">made entirely of thoughtless, weightless,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">fruit flies. At first, I tried to reason<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">with them; I proclaimed,“This is my home, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">not yours. There is a world of garbage for you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I opened the window as invitation,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">transformed the fan into a simulation:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">my kitchen as a hurricane.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I clogged the air with sandalwood,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">dragon’s blood, pumpkin spice, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">bleach—then set the bathroom ablaze <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">with peppermint oil and watched the smoke decay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I cinched my garbage bags, trapping at least<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">a hundred, then tossed them in the dumpster,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">where their strangeness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">would be compressed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">In the mirror, my tired face was obscured<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">by pointless, toothless,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">poison-filled<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>David
D. Paul</b> was born in Pittsburgh,
but currently lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife, two daughters, and their
pet gold fish, Michelangelo (Mikey for short). </span></blockquote>
Adam Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13565797788253739970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243042293574845585.post-69055974337530303862015-01-06T00:30:00.000-05:002015-01-06T00:30:01.636-05:00Chris D’Errico<div class="MsoNormal">
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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world, there are stories <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">from wicked
ones. Heart-songs lost. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Chirrups. Cedar cairns,
teeth of maize. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My thorax is a
paranoiac sculpture. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sting of nettle,
sepia bark and juniper. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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away. Burrow into privet. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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painted arroyos, dust. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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slouching mules, feral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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corral where the sheep were <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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silent. Shadowed. Now, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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tobacco. I am the twang <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a lycanthropic squat, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">on the peaks of
mushroomed rocks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In a fallen
world, blood is substrate <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of belonging. The buzz <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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black as a helicopter. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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under a skull-white moon. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">and blade of a
shoulder. Spiders build<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">webs in eye
sockets. Quiet as a blown<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">tire. Bullet of
thistle, ash and horn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Chris D’Errico’s </span></span></b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">writing has appeared in various
print journals and online magazines, such as:<i> Otoliths</i>, <i>CounterPunch</i>,
<i>Misfitmagazine</i> and <i>Weirdyear</i>. He has published several poetry
collections, including "<a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/virgogray-press-and-virgogray-press/vegas-implosions/paperback/product-20252657.html">Vegas
Implosions and Exterminator Chronicles" (<i>Virgogray Press</i>, 2012)</a>.
Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, D'Errico lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, with his
wife and a small clouder of house cats. For more, visit <a href="http://www.clderrico.com/">www.clderrico.com.</a> </span><o:p></o:p></span></blockquote>
Adam Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13565797788253739970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243042293574845585.post-24493254406128104142015-01-05T00:30:00.000-05:002015-01-05T00:30:02.385-05:00Jessica Down<div class="MsoNormal">
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She was wearing a dress I used to have.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The dress was hideous;<o:p></o:p></div>
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it made us look skeletal and misshapen.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It was one piece of blue-plaid-fabric, with a blue-plaid-tie
around it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I watched our dress, and saw how it contorted our bodies in
the same way.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I thought about how it looks better on me,<o:p></o:p></div>
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even though it looks good on no one.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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I sat down when suddenly I felt nostalgic for the
Southcenter Mall. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I used to go there in ugly dresses,<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>holding hands with a
man who would tell me that they’re not,<o:p></o:p></div>
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and we would see empty movies.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I suppose that’s how he was, too.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And that’s how that dress made me feel.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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I saw her walk out of the room in our ugly dress,<o:p></o:p></div>
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the one that looks better on me,<o:p></o:p></div>
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and grasp the hand of a man who probably tells her that it’s
not.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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But it is an ugly fucking dress<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jessica Down</b> is a
writer from Seattle, Washington. She graduated from The Evergreen State
College. Her work has been previously published by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bewildering Stories</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
League for Innovation.</i></blockquote>
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Adam Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13565797788253739970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243042293574845585.post-3719807727977843022015-01-02T12:00:00.000-05:002015-01-02T12:00:05.065-05:00Kyle Beatty<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">Significance</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Blank input.Winner takes all. Winner stored in order to
inhibit learning if the winning decision in not a learn concept (combo lobe) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Blank input.Winner takes all.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Convert vision input (if) into an inverse<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">make distance [weight] (if) into an inverse. The vision lobe
specifies whether an object of this noun category can be seen and if it can
where it is [input significance][relaxation rate][wander behavior] <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Input multiplied by [dendrite weight] is the output. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Only nudges if there is already a stimuli, i.e can see or
smell<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Blank state<br />
Calculate change.[maximum nudge]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Nudge neuron<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">accordingly. Save Last Signal for next time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Kyle Beatty </b>was
born in Oakland, CA where he currently resides. His chapbooks,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Wrong Side of Nothing” (c. 2013) and "Beginner’s
Neuroscience” (c. 2014) can be found in local dumpsters and lining restroom
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Adam Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13565797788253739970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243042293574845585.post-63659764717759065492015-01-01T16:01:00.001-05:002015-01-01T17:11:42.435-05:00Ali Znaidi<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">there is no scar in the marble of her skin</span><br />
<br />
bodies are mortal<br />
life is not a zero-sum game in which either the flesh<br />
or the soul must lose<br />
life is just a sum total of watercolours<br />
& all creatures are just seeking recognition on the canvas<br />
of an artist behind closed doors<br />
mystery is there<br />
to convey a welcoming presence: <br />
survival needs maintenance and inspiration<br />
still those nyphms are having luncheon on the grass<br />
while Sappho is bathing in the lake<br />
it is the translucent light <br />
no room for pitch-black earth<br />
just a lot of room to patch your psyche<br />
darkness is always a lost cause<br />
nothing mortal when it comes to poesy<br />
nothing mortal when the butterflies begin to fly<br />
seen from afar they lighten the firmament<br />
{what a surprise}<br />
i don’t see any scar in the marble of Sappho’s skin<br />
i am awakened by the light:<br />
REALLY nothing mortal when it comes to poesy<br />
i just want to carve the word ‘eternity’ on her marble<br />
i just want to make a vispo—<br />
a Sapphic vispo drenched in light<br />
<br />
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Ali Znaidi (b. 1977) is a Tunisian poet of English expression. He authored four poetry chapbooks including <i>Experimental Ruminations</i> (Fowlpox Press, 2012), <i>Moon’s Cloth Embroidered with Poems</i> (Origami Poems Project, 2012), <i>Bye, Donna Summer!</i> (Fowlpox Press, 2014), and <i>Taste of the Edge</i> (Kind of a Hurricane Press, 2014). He also authored a fiction book titled <i>Green Cemetery</i> (Moment Publications, 2014) which is in fact the first Tunisian flash fiction collection originally written & published in the English language. You can see more of his work on his blog at <a href="http://aliznaidi.blogspot.com/">aliznaidi.blogspot.com</a>, and follow him on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/AliZnaidi" target="_blank">@AliZnaidi</a></blockquote>
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Adam Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13565797788253739970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243042293574845585.post-4509705275919245672014-12-31T10:44:00.000-05:002014-12-31T10:45:37.081-05:00Marissa Aroy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>This excerpt of the 11 minute short film based on the short story "Talunang Manok" by Marivi Soliven is directed by Media Factory's Marissa Aroy. The screenplay is adapted by Niall McKay. This concludes a three-part series that began with <a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/2014/12/marivi-soliven.html">Marivi Soliven's story</a>, followed by a <a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/2014/12/interview-marivi-soliven-and-marissa.html">conversation between Marivi and Marissa</a> about the story and the adaptation.</i><br />
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Amy McDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13474615862749878337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243042293574845585.post-80952403329056044862014-12-30T12:34:00.001-05:002014-12-30T12:34:38.533-05:00EAT | READ: Mark Cugini <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i>EAT | READ will be a weekly beat on the new website RealPants.com (<a href="http://www.publishinggenius.com/?p=4587" target="_blank">more info here</a>). It will be produced by our Food Editor, Kristen Iskandrian, and Executive Editor Amy McDaniel. We will feature an EAT | READ post here on EAT GENIUS every Tuesday as a lead-in to the Real Pants launch on January 1. Kristen's intro to the beat is below, followed by today's post.</i><br />
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In this space, we're going to tell you what we've been reading and what we've been eating, and we're going to ask other people what they've been reading and eating, and we might, from time to time, include a recipe or a meditation or a grocery list. On most days, the only thing I like more than food is books, and on other days, the only thing I like more than books is food. But on all days, I ingest a lot of words and a lot of calories. We at Real Pants are eager to explore the wide and always-changing intersection where we find ourselves ever-hungry, never full.<br />
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This week we asked the Real Pants strategist, Mark Cugini, and here is what he told us.<br />
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READIN: I'm reading Emily Toder's big-ass BEACHY HEAD and I'm not done with it yet but right now the whole thing is just blowing me backwards. I don't think I've ever read another writer that seems so simultaneously stimulated and confounded by their world, and the poems are quietly cackling at everything in a manner that makes me as if it's very OK to not know anything. This book is making me feel alive and afraid and fearless and terrified in ways I've never felt before. I wanna take this book to the zoo and hold its hand and laugh at all the meerkats and then I wanna buy this book a vegan pizza and just stare at it in utter awe when not-cheese somehow burns the roof of its mouth.<br />
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