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Max Zimmer

Max Zimmer: Newly Wed

May 16, 2011 by PBQ

When you pick her up at the hospital after work, in the light blue Volkswagen that still shows the phantoms of the wedding graffiti when it rains, you can smell the day’s disinfectant in her green uniform. When you take her head and put your mouth on the skin behind her ear, you can smell […]

Filed Under: Contributors 67, Issue 66, Poetry, Poetry 67 Tagged With: Contributors 67, Max Zimmer, Poetry, Poetry 67

Max Zimmer: After You Set Your Head On Fire     The Rest Will Follow

May 16, 2011 by PBQ

The way your father waits for the bus to the slaughter house outside the house each morning with his brown shoes tied The way your father drowns in the noisy snoring of his daughter’s dreams at night through the thin rock of unpainted wall The way your father runs across the weeds of the fields […]

Filed Under: contributors 69, Issue 69, Poetry, Poetry 69 Tagged With: Contributors 69, Max Zimmer, Poetry, Poetry 69

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