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Golf Cart

Scuttled poem—

was called “Golf Cart” 

 

Something about

Golf Cart Stage

Imperialism 

ditched

in a pond. 

 

Poem kicked off with

the cringe quatrain: 

 

“All aboard! 

here we go—

uh, little bit of a 

puddle, here”

 

Poem

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Faces

had my grandfather been an ex-guerrilla
of the Malayan Communist Party

 

1.

To get rid of acne, apply a pea-sized amount to your face, 

rub, then rinse.

 

For you, the pus was pea-sized:

                                                            its white-yellow or yellow-brown

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Intervals

Thin is in again, Georgia said when the boys left the table. When she said it, she leaned into J and let the words fall soft in the air, as though it were a secret. 

It was never out. 

It …

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from I want to start by saying

I want to start by saying that I am in love with someone who has a chronic illness.

I want to start by saying that I research fecal transplants, pituitary gland tumors, Lyme disease, ME/CFS, antibiotics, immune boosters, immunosuppressants, anti-fungal …

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Trouble Is Coming Round

There has always been, in Lucille Clifton’s work, an abiding elegiac quality; she had many losses after all: her mother at a young age, then her husband, her father, two of her own children. Amid all her poems contending with …

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