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    In the Junkyards
    In the Junkyards
    In the Junkyards
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    In the Junkyards

    By Kyle Hemmings

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    A collection of poems and short prose dealing with a dystopian world where body parts are interchangeable with auto parts. Power and sex are equated as supreme values and are intermingled with death. The poems take a surreal look at lives, devalued, dehumanized, against a backdrop of the city in endless shadows and its neverending dumps of car wreckages.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKyle Hemmings
    Release dateOct 2, 2013
    ISBN9781301137190
    In the Junkyards
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    Kyle Hemmings

    BioKyle Hemmings lives and works in New Jersey. He has been published in Elimae, Smokelong Quarterly, This Zine Will Change Your Life, Matchbook, and elsewhere. He loves cats, dogs, and garage bands of the 60s.

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