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Jared Ward, on February 10th, 2010 152 views
It was like the last time he’d been there, only that time he’d fallen, smashed into the coffee table and broke the bong. He smelled like dirty bongwater for days until his dad asked him to take a shower and change
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Elizabeth Madden-Zibman, on December 16th, 2009 541 views
Only weeks after my adoption had been finalized, I was whisked to the first day of first grade with a new first name – along with the new last one. The Catholic school in which I was enrolled recognized only the names of saints. This obliterated the only first name I’d ever known, “Honey,” and bumped up to first-name status my middle name, Elizabeth (Hebrew for “consecrated to
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Fred Shaw, on December 11th, 2009 392 views
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Jason C. Venner, on December 8th, 2009 191 views
Alcoholism is a Drummer
who will do anything
to stop the pattern in his head
from getting too loud.
He fears nothing more
than the maddening roll-step
of heel to
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Pablo Medina, on December 1st, 2009 321 views
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the editors, on June 30th, 2009 135 views
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Where did we get the name you ask? From our Da. Ma says he used to be a punk, she was a punk too, but only ‘cause Da was one. Not a punk like in the cop programmes on telly, where they call robbers and muggers “good for nothin’ punks.” No, a Punk Rocker. Ma said punks listened to punk music and used to wear torn clothes and had safety pins jammed in their ears and called themselves names like Rat and Flea and Scabs. The more disgusting the name the better, Ma
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From the Summer 2007 issue
“The Girl Singer,” was inspired by Shelby Lee Adams’ photograph, “Pauline, 2000,” and Dolly Parton’s version of the cautionary ballad, “Silver Dagger.” The poem chronicles the imagined life of a once-successful folk singer who could never break past the good-ole-boy network in commercial country
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