Poetry
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Trouble
"The jukebox at Pizza King didn’t bump any songs past / 1978 but we fed it quarters anyway"
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Midwestern
"I heard the dreams of a revisionist age, / the once upon a time / of a land strong in industry."
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Great Dams on the Land
"When my son rides the Switch Back Gravity Rail over coal lines in Jim Thorpe, I hope to God the mountains are His and my boy might believe in his ancestor clans."
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Why is the City of Flint Allowed to Waste Away?
It’s February in Flint, Michigan and children will / make paper heart valentines."
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meditations in the decline of western civilization
"this is how i ground myself. / i follow the writing on the wall."
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