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Poems from the 2025 Alliteration Contest.

"In our own desperately stupid era of collective mental impasse, when thinking seems powerless to do more than confirm things are worse than we’d thought, it’s tempting to envy what seems retrospectively like a high point of American intellectual seriousness, when the country’s best came close to imitating what they imagined were European standards." --Blake Smith in The Hinternet

"Or the time they fucked up the dosage and the voice in my head became so badly disconnected from the words coming out of my mouth that I got into an argument with myself." (via @helendecruz.net)

"two asleep
we walk on the roof of hell
in an oil slick"

--@poemexe.com

Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues.