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RED SCARE<br />
by Cali Kopczick<br />
you carry your teeth around like rows of rotting grenades<br />
which bite will be the pulled pin, which nerve the selfless jumper<br />
saving no one? a month from now you could be whistling<br />
through an absence, you could have health insurance,<br />
you could have something spilling into your veins<br />
even now you plumb the depths with your tongue,<br />
make a sucking sound, chew gum<br />
you cut yourself on edges that shouldn’t be there your food has places to hide<br />
that shouldn’t exist that tongue that you run again to the depths<br />
makes sounds it shouldn’t be able to you carry a plot under your words<br />
that isn’t yours places tucked into you that you cannot afford to find, cannot afford<br />
to board up or bring back into the fold of friendly anatomy<br />
have a last meal, have a little faith<br />
have you been waking up in the middle of the night<br />
your whole skull aching<br />
with its own dust its own grind its own implosion? not yours,<br />
you tell yourself, none of it yours and you become the foxhole<br />
and you become the crater<br />
and you swallow yourself<br />
The Forgotton Face in the Crowd 5<br />
Allen Forrest<br />
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