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OAKLAND FIRE CODE
by W. H Duryea & E.E. COLI
Dedicated to the victims of the Oakland warehouse fire, emergency responders, and Wallace Stevens.
101.2. Scope.
This code
establishes
regulatio
4 Poems on Stasis
Operation Ranch Hand
My desktop is a photograph
of a Vietnamese river delta,
post-Agent Orange.
The landscape has been
meticulously defoliated.
It is barren.
In the gr
Haunted Harambe: A Millennial Ghost Story
“I have a friend who saw his ghost.”
“Whose ghost?”
“Harambe’s.”
“You have a friend who saw the ghost of a dead gorilla?”
“Well, felt his ghost anyway. Fe
Full Bloom, Part II
(View the previous episode here)
Tuesday
When the bullethound shuttle pulled into the parking lot behind the staging area, people were already in the midst of giving a sh
About to Blow
Beginning of phone transcripts for 1-800-XXX-XXXX on date 11/20/2017
Call #1
(Operator): Hi, this is Marie, how are you doing this morning?
(Caller): Not
And John Adams Wrote …
In March of this year, while the Republican Primary was still ongoing, Mitt Romney gave a speech condemning Donald Trump and pleading with his party’s voters to select essentia
Full Bloom, Part I
WATCH CLIP: “Intervention”
INTERVENTION
Monday
“Ok, Vantrice,” I said, wheezing as I exhaled the way my therapist had showed me, “You have five minutes.”
“Five minutes?!
We Were Germany
How can you write poetry on my wall?
you can’t write love
when you raped the world
We were Germany
annihilators
sinking Europe with our poisons
and
rotting hatred
W
The Comedy Beyond Hope
With apologies to Dante Alighieri, the saints, the penitent, and all of the damned.
I
Dante Dreams of a Return to Hell
Somewhere in his home in Florence there is a scrap of
Suicides of Men I Never Knew
1
Memories of an 84 Year Old Co-Worker
They were together 18 years, and never married.
One night, after they had both been drinking, they had a fight.
He told her he was goin