2022, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, untitled series 2 (2022)

5.

sequence: rodeo

A/[] Testing prayer prior to sadistic show
not quite blood sport, per say but ye
without hope there are no ticket sales
and the static map remains so

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2022, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, untitled series 2 (2022)

4.

wake these mornings and so begins
the counting of pennies dis
appearing in rusty grates
of MS-DOS mind palace sewage traps

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2022, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, untitled series 2 (2022)

3.

daily techno-ablutions
insist upon a desperate humanity
tears short circuit the hardware

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