I read somewhere once that, / people like me / never get to be / everything they wanted
Read MoreTo Mayakovsky While Australia Burns
Somewhere poetry shot itself.
Read More[Redacted] BALMS
The following redacted verses, based on the Biblical Psalms, were provided by the Born Again Labor Museum and published in Locust #1.
Read MoreOn This Day in History
The following advertisements for a Wisconsin taxidermy shop — each containing unverified historical information — were discovered in the newspaper microform archives at Morris Library in Carbondale, Illinois. Originally published in the Black River Falls Banner Journal Constitution Tribune and Shopper, these were reprinted in Locust Review #1.
Read MoreThe Litany of St. Guillotine
Saint Guillotine! Saint Guillotine!
Death bride of the workers,
Lend us your blade!
2046: A Vision
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Read MoreToilet Key Anthology
When the homeless lady asks to wash her face / you should say “I just mopped in there.” / But you’ll hand her the vinyl pipe / with the little silver twist of wire.
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Soluble Futures: Flint
Once, we made those buildings hum. First we took Fisher Body Numbers 2 and 1. They said auto would never go union. That we were too shifty and unreliable. That’s what they said.
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