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Upon Visiting the Veterans Hospital
Upon Visiting the Veterans Hospital
(Steve Rogers)
Even if a man has been chopped down
to leglessness and lingering, worshiping
at the altar of what used to be, he is not without
his will to be so incomplete and gnawed—
so human—that he cannot unwrap the bandages
on his dangling hand and, with groaning
effort and malice, offer up his middle finger— Dive deeper…
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Benjamin “Biggers” Kane: Extortionist, Murderer, Bibliomancer.
Benjamin “Biggers” Kane:
Extortionist, Murderer, Bibliomancer.
(Interviewer’s Notes: As before, he smiles and I go cold.
But, as he speaks, his eyes are as afraid as mine.)
No one could ever know the lust I had
for hope. But Gilgamesh was dead and cold
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Down Highway 74
Down Highway 74
On the way back from Charlotte
there is a dead girl draped across the grass
beside the highway. She swarms
with policemen and one or two paramedics
who, for some reason, still have not
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Issue #1: “The Secret Origins of YOUNG MAN!”
Issue #1: “The Secret Origins of YOUNG MAN!”
Country house. Old. Gray. Almost a shanty.
Short and rotund, Mother works in small herb garden.
Her skin is dark. Her hair in a pony tail. Her hands dirty.
It is Mother’s Day and Young Man is not at home
when the blood vessel in his mother’s head falls in
on itself. Boxers call it “punch drunk”—
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