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Ode to Facemasks
By Xi Chuan
Translated By Lucas Klein
If I could, I would put on a facemask and walk into the desert to meet with fairies and angels.

I put on a facemask to resist sandstorms, put on a facemask to resist smog, put on a facemask to make...
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Toast
By D. A. Powell
Said my illness
I’m tired of being
serious all the
time I don’t
like how you
treat me like
we haven’t shared
the same apartments
for eighteen years
long enough to be…
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First of December
By Natalie Shapero
God come on stop cutting me
out of your photos God stop dragging
the mouse around my shopworn
body like a chalk outline then clicking fill
with background God I know

that times are tight I know you only
made one death per person I’m sorry
to...
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Allegory
By Rafael Campo
Outside somewhere, beneath an atmosphere
So pure and new each breath is musical
And silent, mouth-watering, without taste,
So full of butterflies one can’t imagine
Because it hurts to be so free, out there

There was a hospital where AIDS was cured
With Chinese cucumbers and...
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Still Doing It
By Susan Browne
I know something’s cooking
When you give me that look,
Your eyes appearing slightly crossed
Above your CPAP mask,
Which you start taking off,
The mask that saves you from death
By apnea but makes you look like a snorkeler
From dreamland or an escapee from a...
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Knotted Tongues
By Amorette "Epiphany" Lormil
I’ve parked parts of an 8-knot tongue somewhere in my breath
My glottal effect be global
Sound like everywhere I’ve been
Speak like 441 and Peachtree
My language is southern
The fine line between bourgeois and uppity
I am narrator of the equator’s talk
Got a whole...
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Supermarket Surfer
By Wanda Coleman
what bohunkian images i have of you
crash against my niggernoggin as i shiver and stroll
long air-conditioned aisles at 2 a.m. the liquor
1 under lock and key, the lettuce full and moist with
a fresh spray of mist and neon
my cart wobbles...
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Imagination Poem
By Ya Shi
Translated By Nick Admussen
Imagining another person is like writing my diary in poetry.

We don't know each other, but the same demon possesses us both,
like we're playing a game before they carry out our "destruction" —

A competition between idiots; nobody knows its delights.

Here, I denounce...
Living
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Coochy-Coo
By Kit Schluter
You can call me Puppy, or you can call me Sweetybuns.
You can call me Glasscake, Cromagnonpoops, or Pigeonselter . . .
You could even just click your tongue twice whenever we
catch eyes—
ah, from no matter how far away...
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The Six Million Dollar Deaf Boy
By Raymond Luczak
After being abducted by aliens and left incoherent
in the woods across the street, the government

would quietly whisk me away into a secret hospital
where machine parts would be grafted, little by little,

onto my nonfunctioning body parts. Now bionic,
I would hear the...
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Toilet Paper Invective with Self-Flagellation
By Marcus Wicker
Some of you future motherfuckers oughta be
ashamed about the state of your ply count.

Ol’ hologram square, skid tread-
bare, pressed-dandelion-dust-on-a-roll-having

jokers. Bet you’re allowed to have company over.
For shit’s sake, fam. What you know about Chanel

Cottonelle? Perfumed & powdered
as your Great Aunt...
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Ode to Chinese Superstitions, Haircuts, and Being a Girl
By Dorothy Chan
Chinese superstition tells me it’s bad luck
to get a haircut when I’m sick, and my hair
gets cut twice a year, because I let it grow,
tying it into a ponytail, exposing my forehead,
looking...
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Apology
By Christine Gosnay
My mind is male.
It likes to go into a thing
and never come out.

I’m sorry about it.
It has an elaborate custom
of waking in a new place every morning.

By night it goes camping
with the simplest amenities,
and never makes a mistake.

Every fire is...
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!
By Wendy Videlock
Dear Writers, I’m compiling the first in what I hope is a series of publications I’m calling artists among artists. The theme for issue 1 is “Faggot Dinosaur.” I hope to hear from you! Thank you and best wishes.

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The Zen of Housework
By Al Zolynas
I look over my own shoulder
down my arms
to where they disappear under water
into hands inside pink rubber gloves
moiling among dinner dishes.

My hands lift a wine glass,
holding it by the stem and under the bowl.
It breaks the surface
like a chalice
rising from...
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Sideman
By Paul Muldoon
I’ll be the Road Runner
To your Wile E Coyote
I’ll take you in my stride
I’ll be a Sancho Panza
To your Don Quixote
Your ever faithful guide

I’ll stand by you in the lists
With our market strategists
I’ll be your sideman, baby,
I’ll be by your...
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Perfect for Any Occasion
By Alberto Ríos
1

Pies have a reputation.
And it’s immediate —no talk of potential

Regarding a pie. It’s good
Or it isn’t, but mostly it is—sweet, very sweet

Right then, right there, blue and red.
It can’t go to junior college,

Work hard for the grades,
Work two jobs on...
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Emily Dickinson at the Poetry Slam
By Dan Vera
I will tell you why she rarely ventured from her house.
It happened like this:

One day she took the train to Boston,
made her way to the darkened room,
put her name down in cursive script
and waited her turn.

When they read her name...
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a party
By John Brandi
a party
where everyone says goodbye
then stays
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Calamity
By Jeannine Hall Gailey
Your family is coming over for Thanksgiving.
Even worse, it’s snowing.

Headless robots are playing soccer with your soul.
UFOs have been sighted overhead.

A meteor is definitely heading straight for you.
It might miss, but then again.

Tonight a city is being decimated by Godzilla,
or...
Living
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p1Toast

p1First of December

p1Still Doing It

p1Knotted Tongues

p1The Six Million Dollar Deaf Boy

p1Toilet Paper Invective with Self-Flagellation

p1Ode to Chinese Superstitions, Haircuts, and Being a Girl

p1Apology

p1!

p1Calamity

Toast

First of December

Still Doing It

Knotted Tongues

The Six Million Dollar Deaf Boy

Toilet Paper Invective with Self-Flagellation

Ode to Chinese Superstitions, Haircuts, and Being a Girl

Apology

!

Calamity