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"Anthem" by Cynthia Atkins
America, read the room.
The pharmacist and the mail carrier
know all your dirty little secrets.
You’re down in the dumps
depressed, holding onto
the last Gothic window ledge.
You’re an assassin after the shot,
scoping out the closest exit—
Can’t sit still. A shock-jock on steroids.
America, you don’t know what
hit you, now bankrupt as a meme.
"the lonely blueberry" by Tara Labovich
i hear guys in suits are making
fruit illegal. they go ripping out
the woman-trees at the roots, calling
sustenance “mess!” yada, yada!
it’s so rare now to find fruit
in the mess. it’s so rare to find
sweetness sticking to pavement.
but! when
you do, it is always sacrament.
maybe it’s under the spared
trees at the edge of us all. maybe
"The Cat Has a Smoking Problem" by Joshua Jones Lofflin
It’s been obvious for weeks now, the butts piling up beneath the ficus’s leaves or underneath the bed. When I start finding them in the corners of the kitchen, I finally say something to Lauren. She sighs, says she’ll have a word with him. Asks me not to make a big deal over it. Says he only has one or two when he’s stressed.
“He’s a cat,” I say. “What can he possibly be stressed about?”
