Habitual Literary Journal

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be it e estmaybe Sing me gently, draw me dirty insistent, yellow with three cubic feet of blood and bone boiling up to a hot mouth Orange and convalescent, cat tongue esh

Mahra Mindlin

Painting the picture ten pounds skinnier Here we have painted them with our hands Painting the house with two more bedrooms and no one will remember no one will remember

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Meaning is nothing. Who means? Forgotten like long poems and scabs are autobiographies The shrugging on of a shirt Go by, go by, go by Saw it on the news don’t mention it.


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