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Pillow Talk: Kevin Sampsell & Mike Young

Two Word Riot Press authors in one video? Squeeee [the sound of happiness in New Jersey]

“I don’t have

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untitled by Dana Roders

wonder upon waking to your back.

ink on my palm marks me used

blood at your feet untouched.

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Three Poems by Matthew D’Abate

Chopin

It’s when the music hitsand you fall backcan’t tell left from right

and you fallright into

silk sheets

allpillows

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MOTU Physics Teacher by James Sutherland

I’ve got three marbles in one of my pockets.One is like you and one is like me.The third just rolls

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whatever makes her happy by Jordan Hanhilammi

she beats at his doorbut steps back to the curb

he offers her homeshe declines

“come outside” she petitions

her

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Two Poems by Gail D. Kelley

So What

If I were man enough I would draw a warm bath of gasolinepull the straight razor across my

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Three Poems by J. Bradley

Get Off My Lawn

Son, if you are lucky enoughto watch your skin hide underthe bed, shake your fist like

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Holy Ghosts by Christopher Woods

I would spot them in the sky

Above me,

Sitting on wires or in trees,

Sometimes swooping so close

I

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Two Poems by Casey Quinn

holiday breakfast table

the holiday

breakfast table

unfunny stories

told

over eggs

with ham

forced smiles

and

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6 things i won’t to tell my mother by Tristan Silverman

After Mindy Nettifee

Listen to a podcast of Tristan Silverman’s “6 things i won’t to tell my mother.”

1.

i

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