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With only my biology to fear, I was licking the pink aftermath of memory out of manufactured diaries!

That arrived from the writing factory, loose-leaf

Knowing the literary zenith of my sex is the literary

Once an organ in, call her Belief-a-belle, now a pink doppelgänger out

Meanwhile the tucked otter of my chest went commando, sty’d and poop-eye’d — totally pink!

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The magical versatility of this everyday companion that will never ever get you down… 

The effortless premium of its material that was designed to last… 

The perfect complement to every casual occasion… 

The brilliant accompaniment that will seamlessly transition you into summer… 

The human handbag that screams, I LOVE BLUE!

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With only my hormone to personality pipeline to fear I was dipping into the eureka of ludic energy! 

That arrived in the material of a loose newspaper clipping 

Believing the dance of my fear to be tooth-eared, a dance 

Would a twofold fancy, in and out, be this mechanical orgy of realities 

In other words the cuckold of my soul worked its quick toothpick in and out — what harmonies I heard!

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A poem so high it makes the speaker faint!

A voice so low it makes you die!

A tone so invasive it eats you from the inside!

An outfit so bad it doesn’t exist...

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With only this existential blinking to fear, let me wobble into sight and play the tuba! 

That I arrive in the form of a newsletter typo is a synonym for conception 

The preemptive performance of failure and fire, crops the handles off a body 

In place of my member, let a metonym of my body glisten 

Later so brilliant does my patina become, those who look away — go blind!

Zoe Darsee was born around noon on a Tuesday. They are the author of BELL LOGIC (Spiral Editions) and Anzündkind (Creative Writing Department). Their collaboration with Elise Houcek, From the Pocket of Agent Dickinson, a lysergic neo-noir poet's novel, is forthcoming from Inside the Castle in 2025. Together with Nadia Marcus, they run TABLOID Press. This work continues.