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"...with closed eyes, I gently stroke as I would a cat all the things I might have said."

Videntian stabilimenta
starkly whisked off hey presto
midway the cold kitchen
can't think of why blinking
fading words of walg
ev'ryone keeps their bevy

murmurs from the Moog igloo
amerce my star-fed verses
tell them they are tiptop
will outlive this rainsieve

"How is it that Lord of the Flies has sold in the millions and is taught in classrooms around the world, while Skrine has vanished so successfully that not even a single copy appears to be available for sale?"

"Action/disaster movie called Y2K in which all the catastrophes that were supposed to be caused by this computer glitch actually happen. Planes go down, the grid goes down… Various characters across America navigate the chaos. Portrait of the late 90s – powerful GenX nostalgia – in the end they make it, we all make it, a new day dawns. Al Gore wins… the future is bright…" —@aaronlabaree

The Stephen Miller Slam Poem.