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all my available self-published works are there, here:

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as always, will send free PDF of any work to anyone requesting and free hard copy of any work to anyone interested in writing a review. message me at bartonsmock@yahoo.com

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SOME READINGS DONE BY ME, IN ALL UGLINESS:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6WuSKK8yNnngtdNlb5NfwQ

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POEMS, MISC:

[thirst rag]

mouth a souvenir from the exodus of shapes-

her mom
ate something
blue

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[archetype]

we put your favorite chair in your favorite place to stand. you are still as human as the suppression of appetite. people drift in and out of weird dogs that your brothers call grief and your sister the aliens that remember god.

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[lost priest]

I come from a place where a school bus hits a dog and the bus driver barks and all her kids play dead

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[boy in darkness]

blood is a movie and none of it

yours

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[the story outside]

a boy in a diaper
covered in flour

a sadness specific to elevators

cocoon
on every
menu

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[fragment]

forgiveness
was always
assault

/ visions mutter
in the ghost
of my stomach, film

is low
fruit

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[crib wasp]

god to slow spread of reincarnation

this, from death’s
newspaper

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found: nose of the crow-eyed infant

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[head-kisser]

a runway model
in a cornfield

/ the stone a short film on snowfall