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"Self-Portrait with an Ice Pick"
Kara Candito

Imagine the impact-wrecking ball, welcome
     injury or collision, like some secret screamed
          in a late-night taxi. And while it was happening,
bile rising and the blind urge of its happening-
     the ice pick striking the white wall of the freezer,
          the neon sign glowing through the window

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Stephen Dunn

Maybe this world
is another planet's Hell.
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