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🥇 First Place, twenty dollars, 🥈 Second, fifteen, 🥉 Third, ten, Fourth, eight, Fifth, five, then five honorable mentions, three dollars each, with many comments gathering beneath the names and readers filling the page with attention.
By Nolan Reedabout 5 hours ago in Poets
double negatives; or, collected thoughts on optimism
i'm not not saying that the acrid stench of photography chemicals transports me back to the last time i wasn't worried about the future stop bath, fixer & the photo is set in time i'm not saying i don't do tarot readings anymore those cards flip out & it's death on his white horse & it's a tower falling down & it's ten swords in my back (i've learned to never underestimate how disappointing people can be) i'm not saying hope doesn't have an expiration date pop off the lid, do a sniff check: sour i'm also not saying i'm not one of those anarchic goths who daydreams of cooking vegan family meals for a polyamorous commune of witches, punks, twinks & and enbys that only exist in my head no. so, if i had to say it, what i'm saying is— bees congregate around the lavender bush outside my window (i'm not saying they don't remind me of hipsters at an early-2010s pop-up cafe) i crack the window open "why are you working so hard?" i say "don't you know you'll be extinct once the global temperature rises a few more degrees?" they dodn't say anything back but i think they know maybe they're just that committed no, they must have a creed about not not stopping to smell the flowers
By Tyler Clarkabout 8 hours ago in Poets
