By Frank X. Walker
...walk into a bar in America. Butterworth says, I’m being repackaged. Ben says, I’m being rebranded...
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- By John MurilloFor me, the movie starts with a black man Leaping into an orbit of badges, tiny moons Catching the sheen...
- By Paisley RekdalHow horrible it is, how horrible that Cronenberg film where Goldblum’s trapped with a fly inside his...
- By Holly Mitchell1. After the beginning of the gallop, there are counts when the horse is in the air, her legs withdrawn...
- By Walela NehandaCrip (noun): slang for a disabled person/the whole of the disabled community/ a school of thought Example...
- By Alison C. RollinsI am a product of my time. Time is a body that resembles a sound without a scale. Forever foreclosed...
- By Diana Marie DelgadoI turn on the radio and hear voices, girls becoming women after tragedy. Talk about dreams! His heart...
- By Shanta LeeHunger like her mama Most strong in White gaze as in a Cowbird’s flirtation Sprouted in eyes to tongues to bellies...
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- By OvidSome are transformed just once And live their whole lives after in that shape. Others have a facility...
- By Matthew ZapruderI think there was a movie once where Frankenstein fell in love with a vampire. A small mummy at first...
- By BazeedIn the hiding hour of autophagy ghosts hang out all day and talk to us. An archival haunting demanding...
- By James K. BaxterThe wish to climb a ladder to the loft Of God dies hard in us. The angels Jacob saw Were not himself...
- By Trish Salahi. Dog. The time you take home, the time you take away from home. The insistence, the instance worried...
- By Richie HofmannMy sweat soaked the sheets. You used to be like everyone else but then the way you hurt me (fingers,...
- By Anne BrontëA dreadful darkness closes in On my bewildered mind; O let me suffer and not sin, Be tortured yet resigned...
- By David LehmanI. The question is not how like the animals we are But how we got that way. We laugh, for what is a ...
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- By Jonathan WilliamsI. Pan Awakes: Summer Marches In Pan’s spring rain “drives his victims out to the animals with whom they become...
- By Emily DickinsonAll overgrown by cunning moss, All interspersed with weed, The little cage of “Currer Bell” In quiet...
- By Emily DickinsonBecause I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage held but just Ourselves...
- By Lord Byron (George Gordon)The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; ...