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Here’s the main point, in the event that you have neither the time nor the energy to deal with this today: Please contact your local elected representatives today and demand the release of Mahmoud Kahlil. I’m an American who doesn’t have much in the way of an
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I’m doing a terrible job of adhering to the advice of successful Substack writers and posting irregularly (or not at all, really) because I’ve been working on a longer piece of fiction that I have yet to name. In the interest of being a better poster, here is
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Brief study, Morning Sun (1952) Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedRemember, if you wash the windows first, you’ll wash them forever. Outside, dark mutter leans out the casement. The border state becomes a perch. Why’s this part wet, sis? She knows her way
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Untitled: Mobile I don’t remember the last time I was even tempted to call something ceremonial. My throat is empty. I’m a faint smell in an old couch, cattle cold and brimming with leaves and frost. I step into the earth and the earth holds me like an
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedThe alley, going on The neighbors put down astro-turf and had a wild party. Heads turn like potted plants, hunched, hideous. Cosmology makes me suck my teeth. Body is a shape that holds. A dead fish, a cookbook swollen by
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Every time I start writing something about the US election, I stop myself. More than enough has been said about it, and I don’t have anything to offer beyond emphasis; some analysis rings true to me, some is spurious, a depressing amount is delusional. It’s whatever. I’ve
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedImpressions: Park at night Are the planets always in a line like that? Indifferent dogs alone in the road? Tankless, with broken bowls? Hmph. Different forms of behavior are fun da men tal to their nature. A tiny blond ha
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One of Carson Cistulli’s old poems describes time travel in its “cheapest, most efficient form” like waiting for a sharply hit ground-ball rather than charging it, and rushing the play. Invoking baseball’s “long, long season” in the same breath as he describes a particular approach to one of
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The Rat Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedI want to achieve unimaginable fame. I see no downside to celebrity, & don’t buy the gripes. I’d still dream of my body buckling under its bottom rib. The sun would still blight the slope of
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Afternoon Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedIn the plane of the window there’s a still field of sheep and wind stirring only the top of the only tree. The afternoon mild, an ice cube cracking in a glass of water and lemon. Summer thunderstorms
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It’s a Friday, and the vibe is weird. Some thoughts as I sit and wait for a mattress to be delivered: Luka Dončić and Kyrie Irving are asymmetrical basketball players: Irving adding flourishes of an arabesque to his every movement, adding a dramatic flair to even a barely contested
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Milad Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedOne nervous night a woman darkened in her hat, her voice like coldwet grass, sticks in the backyard told me, get a haircut. I burned, tracing heroic names in the familiar rough sofa embrace of desire, while Frank talked