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Review: Becoming the Villainess
Becoming the Villainess
Jeannine Hall Gailey
Steel Toe Books
2006
Coming across Jeannine Hall Gailey’s Becoming the Villainess is like coming upon a lush, sprawling field of wheatgrass while exploring the dark side of the moon: so unexpected and refreshing that one wonders whether or not their O2 tank has been poisoned.
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Set, Egyptian God of Darkness and Evil, Speaks of Job Reassignment, Past Lives and Love:
Set, Egyptian God of Darkness and Evil,
Speaks of Job Reassignment, Past Lives and Love:
(Interviewer’s Notes: If he had demanded my blood, my death,
if he had demanded anything, I wouldn’t be consumed by melancholy.)
I’ve bathed in black, called up the Jackal God
for you. I’ve come as storms. I’ve ravished skies,
carved up your Nile, ate fishermen and priests,
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An Open Letter from the Supervillain the Red Skull
An Open Letter from the Supervillain the Red Skull
And what if I went away? Gave up my vintage SS wardrobe?
What if I disassembled the repulsor rays, the secret submarines
I keep beneath arctic waters for rainy days and spontaneous
governmental coups? What if I set free my standing army?
Dive deeper…
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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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