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Playing with Genre

“Library again?” He had a way of looking at her that made her feel like she was being studied, and in that respect she grew bold.“What if we did something different, like a sensory immersion story?”He glanced at his watch. “I don’t think I have time for a full feature immersion, I’ve got a meeting not too long after this.”“A scene then?”

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Teeth in the wall in Valdosta, Georgia

This poem is about a building in Georgia in which thousands of teeth were found in the walls. Turns out it used to be a dentist’s office, and they would stick their patients' teeth in the wall so they didn’t have to throw them away. It was so bizarre that I immediately knew I needed to write a poem about it.

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The Valuables

One day, this house will be leveled,and an office building or parking lot will erase itleaving no indication that we onceate ice cream bars here, laughing in the sun;that she would wave from her front step untilwe had driven far enough down the road thatshe could no longer see us.

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World Ender

I used to orbit around the planets you made with your feetsang songs of worlds built and kept by youwrapped myself in cocoonsspun from the leaking gold of your fingertips....A year ago you held me in an empty stairwell and told me it wasn’t my faultthree months later you told me to stop playing the victim.

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Scandal Sparks Movement

while bouquets that bloom blood rot in the kitchen,steps outside the window facing the street grow louderclose your eyes, stop yourself from wishingelectric blue aquarium, stare as fish begin to flounder.steps outside the window facing the street growing loudersuddenly, too many lives lost to the barrel of one gunelectric blue aquarium, stare as fish begin to flounderripped seams on borders, forced to come undone.

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