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  03:43

  Poetry Reading: Death Wish, by Jordan...

  Poetry Reading: Death Wish, by Jordan...

  Voice over by Val Cole

  POEM:

  I wish you were dead.

  Does that make me a bad
  person?

  Maybe.

  Anyway.

  I wish you were dead.

  It’s strange, you know?
  Carrying around
  this kind
  of hate.

  Because it’s not the
  boiling burning bubbling
  kind that wakes me up at night.

  No.

  it’s the quiet kind, the ...

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  02:21

  POETRY Read: Intimacy – The Duality o...

  POETRY Read: Intimacy – The Duality o...

  Performed by Val Cole

  POEM:

  I write a lot about intimacy. I write about my understanding of it. Using cannibalism and feasting as metaphors for sex. About bruises and teeth as symbols of love. Of fighting and commitment, all things both cruel and kind. But what I don’t write about, is the empt...

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  01:19

  POETRY Reading: You Never Know, by Ma...

  POETRY Reading: You Never Know, by Ma...

  Narrated by Val Cole

  POEM:

  For Gregg 1946-2023

  When the boulder exploded
  everything came at me—

  your car keys a bar of soap
  that stroked your skin yesterday

  your pillow scent hurtled past
  I couldn’t grasp it

  blast wave gut punch
  blast wind

  spiking lightning
  from a burned-out god, signs

  o...