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Crescent Moon on a Cat’s Collar
I come from a family of madmen and extravagant women. More
She Wants the Ring Like He Wants the Suit of Scars/But
she wants the ring / like he wants the suit of scars/but / I / want violetrhymes from the salt mine of a cell when it blows More
Follow Rozewicz
Follow Różewicz". . . at twenty-fourled to slaughter,"he recites, smokes his thick cigarettes,his tenor voice betrays him, his enduranceall these years, he utters so many thingsabout days gone and… More
Water Water Water Wind Water
under our floors filtered wooden stars / towels and glass gasoline coffins / the skin of trees and jalopy tires fish More
June Journals 6-25-88
The check I bounced was for $208. My buddy, Alfonso S., did the design and layout for Victor Martinez’s first book, Wrecking Them Back. I feel like telling Vic… More
Tapwater Coffee
They took away our coffee pots; You know the type: Big forty-cup, with chrome, The kind you’d never use at home. They said a weapon Potentially lurked there, Were it heaved or water thrown. More
Quiet Racism
Quiet RacismNight smiles, walls carved with namesdead and dying, dates past and present,crowding into one, petrified in ageless shit.Silence support the ceiling. The blackhole we see into to seeis… More