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Secondhand Victims
She only read books with bent spines; broken at the best pages. She bought them used, borrowed, second hand victims. She carefully cleaned the margins : this tireless disannotation. She read alone an… more →
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Secondhand Victims
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A.J. Valliant wrote 4 months ago: She only read books with bent spines; broken at the best pages. She bought them used, borrowed, sec … more →
I’ve slept with friends and woken up with strangers
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A.J. Valliant wrote 1 year ago: Before our bodies hit the bed the bookends bled and strangers made their pardons for the time they … more →
Beautiful Failure
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A.J. Valliant wrote 1 year ago: We offered up beauty with two broken hands; the gathered best slipped, trembled from stiff fingers. … more →
After the Dragon
A.J. Valliant wrote 1 year ago: If I lay down by the dragons side and neither fought, and neither died just slept the night, so awfu … more →
Exhale
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A.J. Valliant wrote 1 year ago: He stared and swallowed, begging past the bitter words that threatened to come. Blood thinned and po … more →
Vacant Tenancy
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A.J. Valliant wrote 1 year ago: I looked and looked at this thick and rough hewn thing (serious and strong), trying to reconcile it … more →
Rope burn
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A.J. Valliant wrote 2 years ago: Sometimes letting go means adjusting your grip and others, falling away entirely. The trick is figur … more →
Haiku Contest: Mark II
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A.J. Valliant wrote 2 years ago: There was a time, in the primordial days of Beats Entropy…that I called upon the readership … more →
Flattened
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A.J. Valliant wrote 2 years ago: The tragedy of our generation is not that we have fallen but that we have forgotten how stand on a w … more →
A blameless life
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A.J. Valliant wrote 2 years ago: I wonder what would it be like to lead a blameless life and have my brittle pieces cut but never fal … more →
"'All of them are dead,' peach grower laments"
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A.J. Valliant wrote 2 years ago: And the winner of the previously unannounced “News headline with oddly poignant phrasing … more →
HAIKU
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thekenji wrote 2 years ago: Cut myself shaving I barely have facial hair My self-esteem bleeds … more →
HAIKU
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thekenji wrote 2 years ago: Red wine inside her, My friend gets to work; Result: Kenji with rat tail. … more →
The Devil we know
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A.J. Valliant wrote 2 years ago: The ugly, unspoken part of our adaptive nature is how quickly endurance becomes acclimation. For a … more →
Ghetto Philosophers
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A.J. Valliant wrote 2 years ago: The great minds of the gutter gathered once to discuss the politics of failure. Solemn men of no con … more →
The things that could have been
A.J. Valliant wrote 2 years ago: Beauty tried, and beauty failed, then never rose again To make a better world without making better … more →
Old notebooks and scraps of prose
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A.J. Valliant wrote 2 years ago: Historically, when I feel the need to write, I buy a fresh notebook in the hopes the negative creat … more →
And where would I put them?
A.J. Valliant wrote 2 years ago: I often wonder were I to gather my pieces would they equal the sum of my parts or vastly exceed them … more →
Toys not meants for children
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A.J. Valliant wrote 2 years ago: “But we were only playing” said a boy with crimson hands a heart held loose between them … more →
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