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Poetry

Summer 2002

My People

By Dean Young

Initially, I too appeared between the legs of a woman in considerable discomfort. A rather grisly scene but fairly common among my kind. Those early days, I must admit: a […]

Poetry

Summer 2002

Republican Victory

By Dean Young

In the field, the complex snowmen have been kicked apart. Some had used the familiar scarecrow matrix, others were dead inside, cloned like modem clocks. Someone has squeezed the tube […]