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Pulse, Nathan Alling Long

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Dad stopped the car on the hill above school and put it in park.

The Ashland Bump, Dan Sieg

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There was a quick rise and dip

in Ashland Street,

I never cared much why.

Easter Eggs, Vanessa Blakeslee

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Julie wished the problem of the Easter eggs wouldn't turn into a blowout fight,

Memo To Mean Girls Everywhere, Nancy Craven

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After you sign-on to U-Stream, and watch the backs of classmates whose fronts you no longer recognize

Why I Cannot Love Picasso, Devon Miller-Duggan

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Sure, he gets that everything is broken

And still charged with lusts.

The Telephone Pole, Jay Baruch

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Everyone leaves--the medics, the police, the coroner, the late night news crew

Gospel, Brady Rhoades

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On French Hill, night falls and you sit on the slope

in your shanty clothes,

Childhood Nightmare, Buff Whitman-Bradley

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In the recurring dream I had as a child

I stood on a small platform

The Lemon Tree, Emily Swaine

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I was walking back to camp with some new supplies when I noticed all the boys standing around,

Posted: Don't Poach, Nathan Whiting

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You now read an uncollected poem.

If a poem collector, you should

In His Introduction To Five Poems, J. R. Solonche

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In his introduction to five poems, Su Tung-p'o wrote:

I got drunk and wrote five poems.

The Name, John Grey

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There should be a name for people

who sit on a rock for hours

Passio #008, George Gott

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If we know

what we ought to know

we join hands with the mighty world

John 3:10010000110, John Supinski

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Welcome to the kingdom of the Immortal

Where races are run barefoot

Contributors

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You And I, Gregory Sherl

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This morning we decide to build
a baby in your belly.

36., Sean Lause

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Thomas Null, machine 36, the hole-puncher,
was secretly apprenticed to despair

A Map For Students, William Jolliff

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They want to make their poems right themselves,
and they know they should, but to win the A
they need me to like their work (so goes the rumor).

Pretty Ballerina, Kerry Jones

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It's just one of those things that sometimes happens to me: I'll find myself walking by a playground, or I'll be walking through the mall, and I'll see a little girl about eleven or so, and that's when my mind takes on a life of its own.

On The Pardoning Of Two Thanksgiving Turkeys By The President Of The United States Of America, Jennifer Perrine

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For this particular sentence, there is a reprieve
because there's a precedent, an annual event
stretching back to Harry Truman's postwar days, lurking

Verso

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Table Of Contents

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Editor's Note

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The Palm Reader Is Packing It In, Richard Luftig

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Since the cops have cracked down
there's no future in fortune telling anymore.

Title Page

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Children At The Wake, John Grey

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I admit that, more than once,

I've pointed to the sky

Dedication, Charles Harper Webb

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Where did Blake Bumgardner find the washtub-sized
cojones to confess over the phone, then listen

Confidence, Laura Buermann

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I am a polysyllabic phenomenon,
a thesauric wunderkind

Traveling Alone, She Fell In The Sistine Chapel--, M. J. Iuppa

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collapsed in a whirl, as if a gust of wind
struck her weak ankle and set her spinning--

Tierra Blanca, Andrea Lewis

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I had what I wanted. I was alone with Charles.