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i. death descends, in spite of help, in spite of the one who would help who is rendered instead—on the sweaty bed, on the cold bathroom tiles—witness. but what is ...

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Computer Assembly Plant

After Betsy Every night a drove of us leaves Our work building And clot the lot’s exit upTill emptied and distant, No different when I’m stuckWith my ...

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September

I was conversing with the blossomless canes in the hot fall air the weak breeze  that briefly jostled  us all gone I guess I loathe this ...

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Queer Liberation

Bought a T-shirt with Sylvia Rivera’s face Spent $50 to hear heterosexuals sing at Pride Walked quickly past the unhoused Clutching my Telfar leaving my Tesla I’m ...

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16

I was a goner, they said. Oh well. Could’ve been worse. Could’ve been born before they dug up all the words. & we’d just stand around trying not ...

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Excerpt: When the Arab Apocalypse Comes to America

Shall I condemn myself a littlefor you to forgive yourself —Fady Joudah, […] I condemn the blooded river that became a sea we cannot crawl out of. I condemn the ...

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Structure

Walking back I pass a block-long dune of rubble and the man whose job it is to shovel it. An iron rectangle he’s nestled in debris makes a little door he’s ...

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Mnemonic Device

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On Voice

Ruben Quesada
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