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    Escapologies
    Escapologies
    Escapologies
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    Escapologies

    By Matthew Burnside

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    Prose poems by Matthew Burnside, for anyone who's ever felt small.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Bird Chapbooks
    Release dateApr 20, 2013
    ISBN9781301509430
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      Escapologies - Matthew Burnside

      ESCAPOLOGIES

      Matthew Burnside

      Published by Red Bird Chapbooks at Smashwords

      Copyright 2013 by Matthew Burnside

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      Escapologies

      for anyone who's ever felt small . . .

      Contents:

      Escapology

      Sunken Dreamers' Almanac

      Tao of Right Now

      Reliquary for the Trampled Underfoot

      Anti-Midnight in the Kingdom of Yes

      Revisionist Poem

      Emily on Fire, Waltzing, Waiting for the Rain

      Consequence of Splitting the Atom

      The City She Sings Noir, Softly First & Then Without Mercy

      Romance Like a Pneumatic Hiss

      On the Failure of Language To Comfort You Following the Death of Your Pet Rock, Pebble Without A Cause

      A Brief/Infinite Summer Of Playing House

      Honest Bio

      Acknowledgements

      ***

      Escapology

      *roll a d20

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      in your mouth the stubborn stir of birds, their battered wingbeat birthing dust. your clipped tongue in straightjacket embrace. his tall blue kiss in a dark room suckling wasps through cellophane straws / lose half a childhood

      3-4

      sneeze not & the closet will cloak you. sneeze & the closet will spit you out like rotten teeth, like wet rat tails. your fleeting faith in cartoon logic: so long as you don't look down the floor

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