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  Slosh

  

  By samasparagus, Riverside, IL

  Strange way that things can shift like a grand whomping slosh in a jerked fish tank. The way the fish will cluster together at the sides, irises spinning frantically in their mammoth sockets. And in that cluster an unspoken sense of unbreakable unity in the face of that grand whompin...
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  Personal

  

  By samasparagus, Riverside, IL

  What is personal? Is it not universal? No, they are the same....
• Poetry > Free Verse
  How on Earth

  

  By samasparagus, Riverside, IL

  "He doesn't understand" she muttered, eyes stuck tight to bricks. "He thinks he's funny", in her eyes the glimmer of sick shame. "Our culture", she explained, "is beautiful and clean." She didn't want to learn- the language o...
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  Don't Fall

  

  By samasparagus, Riverside, IL

  She balanced on the creaky wood that formed a creamy rail. She snared her lips into a smile, a sea bright freckles sail. "Stop, get down," seems to stumble, flee my mouth of rosebuds. My brain is searing, screaming, frothing silently like soapsuds. Her eyes are stones that chil...
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  Clouds

  

  By samasparagus, Riverside, IL

  Torn, you crawl, blinded, over crackling land. Sluggish, you slam you shadows against- etched mountains...