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August 31, 2026 / barton smock

rejoice

I wish for you
that you can die
thinking
on your death

The movies

got away
some
went first
The writing

suffered
so what
I stayed

as sober
as a spider
in an appetite
not long
for god
and the writing

had a silent
mother
or went
in a mother

silent
oh most
thorough
of autofictions
oh doom
scrolling
son of my son's
suicide
have you a part

for the speaking
father
I'm not

here to be sad
I'm there
and my brothers

bike
up a hill
that can feel
an ant
die

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