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"We went every day about nine o’clock, with our books wrapped in paper to prevent the police or white persons from seeing them."

"Elias Thorne might be a clockmaker, a lighthouse keeper, or a librarian. But if you ask ChatGPT or any of the other popular large language models to tell you a story, there’s a good chance he’ll appear, unbidden." —Samantha Cole via

Certain Flowers.

"CASSEROLE (Anagrammed Lines)

The perfect casserole:
Cereal of the spectres.
Ether of secret places."

—Anthony Etherin

"But for Chelsey Minnis, poetry is'“a frying pan full of diamonds' and 'humorous like a crotch sparkle.' It is 'like lickable mink'..."