by Misael Osorio-Conde. frágile one / fragile bloom of carbon // soy despues i am / after all / only direction // poeta counts / to the poet / when he crossed // la frontera
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cut yr hair / we eat wonderbread
by Blue Nguyen: i grew up on / food stamps / and / canned vienna sausages / i grew / up on microwaved / pizza rolls
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I Can See The Future!
by Travante Franklin. there is a black baby / angel sitting in my lap. / asking me things like
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Memory Palace
by Grace Lau. Here are the stairs / you must ascend / to enter, as if every Sunday were practice / for heaven. And that
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Total Liquidation (Zagreb)
by Jake Romm. Total liquidation. / Everything must go. / Complete and ruthless clearance of everything existing.
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Moral Calculations: Pandemic Coverage Obscures Individual Risk and Social Harm
by Abby Cartus, Justin Feldman, and Seth J. Prins. The United States has largely failed in its response to the coronavirus pandemic. Unlike other countries that have eliminated community transmission or suppressed it to low levels, US officials have allowed high levels of the virus to circulate and tolerated the subsequent mass death.
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Mark Fisher’s ghost watches me sleep
by David Greenspan. “He sits in a thin wicker chair by the bookcase / thumbs untitled spines mumbles about lack of sunlight / my body communicates via a series of twitches”
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early on
by Steele. so yeah a bright proleptic rose is spinning / slow above my head portending death / but in a hot way. yes the water ripples
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Stolen Air
by Kim Kelly. By the time you read this, my grandfather will have been dead for over a year. He picked a hell of a year to go, though of course it was never really up to him. He was a bystander to his own demise.
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The Elite
by Julianne Neely: certainty in self realization after / failing and I do not trust / this assembly what is quality
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