RIKKI SANTER – RELIGION

Religion The Dude was here The Dude’s a saint Saints pick their teeth Saints spread like wildfire Wildfire eats oxygen Wildfire purifies Purify your thoughts Purify your chant Chant for Godtopia Chant for redemption Redemption for massacre Redemption for torture Torture to convert Torture to believe Believe in deep alchemy Believe heretics will confess Confess […]

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JOE FLAMBO – COOL SONG

Cool Song I remember I was 10 years old and was playing in the living room One sunny Saturday morning As my sister scrubbed the kitchen floor on her hands and knees Hair tied in a bandana The plug in zenith am radio with the big pink dial on the bench Playing the popular songs […]

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Angela LaVere – 3 POEMS

Chameleon* I’m a Chameleon, Changing my colors to match my surroundings, I’ll make you feel comfortable. * Trauma like armor, I’ll blend in, so you don’t hurt me. * I can tell your mood in your footsteps, the set of your jaw, the tiniest tells; a twitch at the corner of your eye screams danger. […]

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KINA NORVILLE – THANATOPHOBIA

Thanatophobia As always, I wake early to bakeit’s 4 AM, I finish and try to get some rest,and I can’t get this specific thought out my brain:death.How I want to remember being alive, and how I won’t remember anyone or anything.How does it feel to not remember being alive?It scares me.Like my blanket covering me […]

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Sharvaree Kowale – 3 poems

tape metal mesh tongues on glass pane eyes, a translucent autumn makes haste for exit; it tries to leave the  gutter conglomerate  of affections in shedding, of nose twitches, of wings in paralysis, of butterflies in flee from breastfed saplings,  of everyday eclipses hiding in your sock drawer. you’ll close your lips around the filter […]

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