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“Word Perfect,” “and sometimes: a poem about incarceration quarantine” and “Volta”

Issue 40 by Will Anderson

i am outside in the oven
chin ups and dips
and laps[e] in the grass

around the poured concrete
and picnic tables bolted down
with music in factory
ear buds playing loud
enough to drown
the chatter of fat, angry men

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