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One of think tank for human being in general’s most iconic poems.

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Alexandra Naughton (b. 1985) is the writer of I WILL ALWAYS BE YOUR WHORE [love songs for Billy Corgan] published by Punk Hostage Press (January 2014). She is the editor in chief of Be About It books/zines, and the host of a reading series in the Bay Area. Her work has appeared in Dusie, HTML Giant, Metazen, Thought Catalog, Similar Peaks, and elsewhere.

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Originally published on Metazen.

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Benjamin King is an okay writer and a pretty good dad. His fiction has appeared in Nano Fiction, Safety Pin Review, New Wave Vomit, Up, and some other really cool spots. He likes robots, space music, the future, and pictures of celebrities pumping gas.

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Classic chapbook from Richard Wehrenberg Jr. and Jordan Castro. Website here.

“the aesthetic is not like a manifesto calling for ‘revolution!’
but an individual saying ‘damn’ or ‘wtf’ repeatedly” – Steve Roggenbuck

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Urging you that the Christian ideal is to be posession-less, as true treasure exists in the kingdom of heaven only.

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A poem by Mira Gonzalez that originally appeared in Tao Lin’s Muumuu House Press website.

In it, Gonzalez talks about various, semi-depressing things going on in her life, all while maintaing her trademark humor and self-deprecation.

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Mira Gonzalez (b. 1992) is an American poet and author. Her debut poetry book, i will never be beautiful enough to make us beautiful together, was released by Sorry House Press in 2013.

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Sometimes you just have to be who you are, even if it means letting down others around you. For example, Paul Gauguin, who abandoned his family in Europe to go make amazing paintings in French Polynesia.

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