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i am new york city
here is my brain of hot sauce
my tobacco teeth my
mattress of bedbug tongue
legs…
here is my brain of hot sauce
my tobacco teeth my
mattress of bedbug tongue
legs…
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The Last Son of China
By Wang Ping
....................... hello hello hello ... Weiwei ... where have you been? ... I see you in dreams ... bleeding ... in the darkness of the sun ... 81 spots in the flame ... each a nightmare one cannot wake up from ... Weiwei ... the last son ... you told me as we said goodbye ... your last night on the Lower East...
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By Mark Waldron
manifold we tippytoed
niminy-piminy out of the enormous green door
and into the money
monkeys in …
niminy-piminy out of the enormous green door
and into the money
monkeys in …
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Poet, writer, and educator Tanaya Winder is an enrolled member of the Duckwater Shoshone Tribe and has ancestors from the Southern Ute, Pyramid Lake Paiute, Navajo, and Black tribes. She grew up on the Southern Ute reservation in Ignacio, Colorado, and earned her BA at Stanford and an MFA from the University of New Mexico. Winder’s collections of poetry include Words Like Love (2015) and Why Storms are Named After People and... Read More
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