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Shorts Are Wrong

by Mike Topp (Unbearable Books)

Thank god for the independent press, and thank god for poet Mike Topp. While mainstream poetry (if there is such a thing) remains the province of flowery phrases, musings about mother, and forgotten childhood as embodied by an idly swaying swing on the empty playground, the independent press reminds us that a kid probably fell […]

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