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Tropicana by Austin Sanchez-Moran

August 15, 2021

She wears shoulder and arm guards for the dripping wax, but very often drapery, wallpaper, cabinets catch on fire.

August 15, 2021

I measure him, balancing the ruler smoothly upon his godless tonsure.

August 15, 2021

The five-fingered claw of lightning reaches into the veins of town, hisses over the river, killing fish.

August 15, 2021

The heatwave cooked a million shellfish alive in their beds

August 15, 2021

My love & I won’t stop dancing. we don’t concern ourselves with rhythm

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