Archive (Page 13) • The Main Event, by stacy-marie ishmael

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2021-09-05 I mean, / what pearl forms around a grain of plastic in an oyster?
2021-08-22 the dead are changeless. / They grow no older. / It is I who have changed,
2021-08-15 i want to talk about respect. / how even the desperate deserve it.
2021-08-08 did you know roots are easy / to snap?
2021-08-01 The being of some is: to be. Of others: to be without.
2021-07-27 Invisible until you won’t see them / won’t bend and lift their comfort
2021-07-25 The After Party: "community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist"
2021-07-18 Just take the imagists. Their heads explode.
2021-07-11 Do not raise your small voice against it. And do not / take cover.
2021-07-10 It feels better to move with time than it does to constantly race against it.
2021-07-04 a different kind of life
2021-06-27 hope bleeds slowly from my mouth / into the dirt that covers us all
2021-06-20 The After Party: "Identity is a hallucination...and everything is a story"
2021-06-13 You are trying to be precise but everything is a carbon-like surface that scrolls by with pinpricks emitting memory’s wavy threads.
2021-06-12 The magic settles uneasy; it turns out fairy dust was always / fake.
2021-06-06 I ask that they describe / an object right in front of them, to make / it come alive, and one writes about death,
2021-05-30 Reporters & fathers call your generation “the worst.”
2021-05-29 a deputizing of hundreds. a machine gun on standpipe hill. a dropping of bombs from chartered planes.
2021-05-23 Everyone loves that familiar warbeat: I know all the words to this war.
2021-05-20 Is it from a dimly lit stone that wars flare up?

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