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And In That Republic by Wes Bishop
And in that republic, they built a machine, a machine of a million names, but one purpose, cruelty. Inflicting pain was a virtue of nettles on bare skin, leaving kindness’s soothing balm treason. It is why I stopped searching this world for guidance, instead pilgriming to myself to find the capitol of compassion. But […]
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PLAYGROUND RULES & PHYSICS by Moriah M. Mylod
Tables turn Moving around and around Seesaw goes up while the other one is down Just so you can push your friend back up again To take the turn The Swing goes Backward to move Forward Then Back & Forth You go up the Slide just to drop back down, again Upward & Downward Your […]
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Cyber Pamphleteer: Imagined Stations, A Poem by Wes Bishop
They insert their hands in my mouth, these passerby pedestrians in the in-between electric places that simultaneously exist but do not exist, (much like a deceased living cat in a physics experiment), and with errant fingers feel my tongue reading my words like braille chiseled on electric, hovering boards of keys. These strangers, bathed […]
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DARK MATTERS: DECAY by Moriah M. Mylod
I like to think of my worries as such: A decaying tree that lays in the entrance of a walking path Where it vanishes at the edge and stings like a thorn bush stab From the Sycamore that rests here on the brim Between the feminine Ted Bundy and the reincarnated Hitler If it weren’t […]
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DARK MATTERS: ATLAS by Moriah M. Mylod
I’m not the obsessed kind hashtag lie, hashtag liar I just like to think a lot For hours and periods of time like pivoting gears Paralyzed by motion And spinning from perseveration The kind that clank together If not gently rolled over Like the passing of a dark purple cloud in a pink salmon sky […]
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DARK MATTERS: ORPHAN by Moriah M. Mylod
I was scared of the dark I was scared of the dark I was scared of the dark monsters I hallucinated at night as a child When everyone was asleep I was in beds of bugs and beasts They were real as day Haunting in the night I got out of the prison of […]
TERSE. Journal : fears. futures. phantasmagorical. funsized. 