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Issue 90

Sarah Jean Grimm: 009 [Unassigned]

October 27, 2014 by PBQ

MODERN ERA: I am looking for           an open secret. FLOPPY DISK: Is there a package           at my door? I have been calling QVC for company. MODERN ERA: I will deliver you away from this loneliness. I will bring you to a cloud in the sky and you will be always in my atmosphere. I will […]

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Janice Greenwood: Bipolar

October 27, 2014 by PBQ

“You remember him as he was, so it is up to you, to remind the others,” the social worker tells me, which I take to mean, I have to remember that there were nights in Florida where the sky shattered open like a thirteenth century Ming vase, the silver energy of the troposphere cracking through […]

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David Greenspan: Colored Lullaby of God

October 27, 2014 by PBQ

The butcher is today thinking of throats,                of their skin and fat and tendon.      He thinks of opening his                     with a carving knife. The butcher leaves      his shop door open. He hangs a sign from the window –           The bloated stomach of a horse                     is not to be confused with something holy.      Before the butcher […]

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David Greenspan: American Mouth

October 27, 2014 by PBQ

The butcher is today thinking of knives.      One to pull ligament from joint and joint from bone.                One to carve muscle –           this knife his favorite and often the butcher finds himself aroused                as he slices roast                for Mrs. Glass. One to cleave                     through gristle and scare teenagers.                One to peel back skin.                     This knife […]

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Emily Gordon: Movie Kisses

October 27, 2014 by PBQ

Tongueless stop-motions, more violent than carnal, they stand in for everything else, and when the lovers step back, they’re as dazed and sated as though they’d fucked for days, the way it feels after alien abduction or a long time-travel, that it’s been years—though anyone watching would say it passed in an instant.

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Emily Gordon: I Find It Hard to Say Goodnight

October 27, 2014 by PBQ

I find it hard to say goodnight. Another tweet will stave the dread. They say a screen is just like light— I reach out, hungry, from my bed. At three, the Facebook works are slow. Despite its flaws, this day can’t die. The others with their touchscreens know What clocks to set their dying by. […]

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