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Portland is the hot new city to move to. People are friendly, there are trees everywhere, and we’re so politically correct, it should really be our middle name. Forget...
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I forget to say your name: POEMS BY MARCYANNE HANNEMANN
Sometimes
when I have my eyes closed
or my back turned
or I pretend I am sleeping
I cannot discern your voice
talking to the stranger’s.
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I forget to...
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(A Few Trials of Spill-O)
(Spill-O’s Small Night Out)
No more docks, no more mills. He walks the landmark blocks trying to name the sad old bug so deep up his ass.
On the dark river, the lit tug boats really could be birthday...
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Who The Hell is Tiffany Scandal?
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BAD SEX by Clancy Martin
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The following is the fourth and final installment of many kickass excerpts from Brian Alan Ellis’s new book A Series of Pained Facial Expressions Made While Shredding Air Guitar POEM ABOUT THE TIME IN HIGH SCHOOL MY BUDDIES AND I...
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SUGGESTIONS FOR NEW WRITING COURSES IN COLLEGE
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Trailer for F250 by Bud Smith
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On Mark Binelli’s Forthcoming Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ All-Time Greatest Hits or Notes toward the Tag Team Exploitation of a Life – Pt. 1
Sperm ricochet guaranteed to pale its purse, vile keepsake authorizing likenesses till handkerchiefs everywhere stood tall in their verse, spawned under court order direct from Satan’s lap, knotting the state-issued diaper of his contraband, dripping stegosaurus enemas that could...
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