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Why I Write slam submission


it's wording will infest

the cautious corners of your mind

take root in the corn-row creases of your brain

and send blooms out your mouth

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If I'd gone outside I would have sweat until I melted into a puddle, so I chose to sit in the kitchen until the air conditioning dried my skin into cracking crevices that exposed my bloody interior. Such was the afternoon I subscribed to Power Poetry. Poetry is a sort of maddness.

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