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bike
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wheat thin king dome
reversal Nut crack
crackling sung hanging
m a g a z i n e
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Slow zone phone stone
overturned limbo LED
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Diss Miss Hiss Swish

listen Free ur than a feeler
fumigation National psychosis runner
an Errand Err or stymied swamp
fist cuff muffler storybook ledger
page wedger fluffy mist
coast armful of puzzle zipper
weeping seeping entrail poppy
seeded search party bestseller
confirmation basis bias dais
tiered welt felt sweltered chin
heaving Having five cents Water
bottle Sensory overlord Sword
Had swallowed Demonic log
In fanciful aside Residing
cabin Wood Should Could under
where stand flying trapezoid knives





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….. reveal a firecracker recommendation
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eat end amend ID inheritance Screwed
suicidal FanNy PaCk rAcK rIb nip bib
earth to earth to thirst to worst clenched
spinal rectal recital ant sunflower ram
Cumbersome smack dab launcher raunchy
ranch pyramid headache tank rank pan
cake corpse sniffing fog soggy zero times
denominator bewildered tombstone deck
satellites sickened Standing stubborn sky
….. whereas popsicle pitch indulge
rotten whim sickle manhole Latin beat
neat brownstones eyed paradoxes…..

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strutting stunned hinge
skin trap tarp warp burp
same argumentative ooze

supplemental façade self-buttoned
bottom inane entity barrage onion
certain stupid super salutary figs
supple dimpled conceptional morons

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grunt manage foreign shelter





Shrimp Shampoo Radiation

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&               Toon        a page to
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Joshua Martin is a Philadelphia based writer and filmmaker, who currently works in a library. He is member of C22, an experimental writing collective. He is the author most recently of the books peeping sardine fumes (RANGER Press), [Ruptured] >> Schematic <<  MAZES (Sweat Drenched Press), destructive paradox slips on banana peel (Cajun Mutt Press), and Dance of Resistance Brainwaves (C22 Press). He has had numerous pieces published in various journals including Otoliths, Synapse, Version (9), Don’t Submit!, BlazeVOX, BRUISER, and Unlikely Stories Mark V. You can find links to his published work at joshuamartinwriting.blogspot.com