Category: Issue 20
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BATAAN DEATH MARCH AS TAROT CARD: NINUNO NG RATTAN by Hari Alluri
After Jana Lynne Umipig Capitulo lullabye. I dreamscape mesmerized by ruination sky. Inordinate and restful like forgetfulness. At wreck. …
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THE BEETLES by Dan Albergotti
There are an estimated 560 million beetles for every human on Earth All you need is love, little guy, shinybeetle, tiny god nestled in your greencarapace. You mirror back my love, youdon’t let me down as you crawl all overevery little thing on this planet, allfour hundred thousand…
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GUILT by Pablo Piñero Stillman
is that dead dog’s collar you keep in the drawer of unusablesalong with the hardened superglue, a remote control for channelslong cancelled & the lock of a stolen bicycle. Guilt is circular, yes, tattered & sturdy, comfortablein its choking. The problem is youremember everything. The problem is guilthas a cuteness to it, a breathinginnocence: a timeof distended bellies,…
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THE BOY IS by Junious Ward
Public Enemy at full volume en routeto a New Hampshire summer, is tongue in cheekgospel like the yellow and green colorwayNikes dad got from the back of that pick-up,bootleg Huey P. Newton in a Lacostepolo shirt. Kids said fake and you got angry,not because they poked or questioned what was realbut because you didn’t know…
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SING, O BARREN ONE, WHO DID NOT BEAR A CHILD
—Isaiah, 54:1 Her hand sharp in the small of Hagar’s back, Sarai, that barrenpunster, pimped her handmaid to her husband, saying, “As I am barren please consort (bo-na, in Hebrew) with her” by literally saying,“I shall be built up (ibaneh) through her.” A barren women can still be clever,…