TBD: DIY Labyrinth

They say, “denouement.” Say, “tellingly.” “In the end…”

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In the News: Train Wrecks

Now this: Michael Jackson, King of Pop, dead. Legend, train wreck, legendary train wreck.

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TBD: Other People

Next to them, this man, all alone and stone-faced, overdressed in street clothes with skin-head overtones, seemed more than out of place. He looked dangerous, or at the very least crazy.

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In the News: Walls Sweet Walls

But, at the same time, there’s this gulf–this ginormous gulf–between what’s really going on and what we’re writing on our walls. Right now, if I click on my Facebook tab (not that I’m looking at Facebook when I should be writing!), I find that one ‘friend’ is “meow, meow, meowing;” one is “chillin in chilly New Jersey;” one is “getting her drink on after the babies go to bed,” and I guess I’m left feeling the gulf even more; I’m left thinking that just because at any given moment I can find out what my ‘friends’ are “doing,” I still don’t know them any better than I did months ago, before I joined Facebook, before my summer nights were lit by the white of my computer screen.

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TBD: Titles

*Titles cannot be copyrighted

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In the News: The Holocaust Museum

A photograph outside the museum depicts the inadequacy of mourning: a few lilies stuffed inside a water bottle, their petals already falling. I think of those who will walk by that water bottle today, think of the legs that will carry them, of the breakfasts they ate, of the rooms they sleep in.

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ALLY OOP THE ALPACA: Forgive Me

PLUS, another great poem by Painted Bride Quarterly contributor Arlene Ang:
What Happens to the Postwoman When She Stops Delivering the Mail
~@~

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TBD: If, These Days, There’s Any Hope For The Paragraph As A Reasonable Approximation Of Thought

Who writes that letter? Who writes about writing it twice? Some version of me?

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In the News: The Word

If only Jolie could do for the lit mag world what Oprah did for the novel. Can’t you see it: the masses reading PBQ on the subway? Start: here. Or here. Or here.

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TBD: As Yet Unsent Letters From A Relocated Man

I guess that’s the nature of any sadomasochistic fling; you make a habit of something kinky—like rubbing all sorts of humiliating creams on humiliating parts of your body several times a day—and eventually your partner wearies of what once enflamed him.

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