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May I respectfully withdraw from this particular deliberation? Also, I’d rather not send anyone in my place. Uncomfortable with naming anyone other than the clear winner. I feel we’re being unjust, and too sensitive. We sacrifice moral high ground when we surrender to our petty instincts.

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Much appreciated. Have a restful extended weekend.

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Sent this up. I’m refusing to participate in denying a keen, young leader that hard-earned, well-deserved shot. For your information.

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End of the day. We must allow them to make mistakes. Even if it is at our expense.

Way Past

600 million people in Southeast Asia
Alone. Sitting on the reference of having had enough

Independence, heroes recalled by the truckload,
Rope nets draped over scalps and collar bones,

Among the many siestas bought and sold,
Our bread and the uniform

Toddlers rolling their way. Home in whose
Thought: such a crisis sunk right between

Pop songs. Liable to flag under the age of 65.
Evac margins signal how you get to push, like

Are these recreational,
Kicking doors in as warranted

By the hardware desiring
comparative readings of hinge strength. Imports

Too brittle for a standard screw. A list of premature
Caskets attributed to the non-communicable

Unfolds, comes in through the back,
Up the misted windows also why,

If you can’t help it. One in every thirteen
Retrieved from the bikes before the age of 60.

Ballerina falls into overlaps

Her stream of questions set off by a fluency. “Sick Woman with 45 seats and 1 teacher’s knife.” It’s a regular mean erasure, but specificity dyed my reason. I got a pedicure because I wanted excess as it “destroys the taste for milder courses like automotive and baking. These dismal statistics should be enough to push the no, maybe avoid it?” There is a noun their bodies together form. Instead, certain subjects sent a machine for making dough, but it was silent on its own. 

8 poems

9 PM chit-chat at the secret clinic

All decentering is kind

Flight home from the supermarket

Joy of the mountain

know—happen

the—sleep

use—premise

we—sincerely

A Radiant Finish

What Is It: A combined force nursing images.

Who Is It For: The union has a hundred dresses covering them to the neck.

Why Is It Different: The child’s wet dress is luminous against the hogtied.

How To Use It: Cover the middle with the scheduled fingers of your hand.

2U

fine as sleep all day

crawl like flowers that you planted

cuts like fun no matter what you do

dark as through the cream

eyes like seven hours