Emily Bark Brown is a poet from Alabama. They received degrees from Wesleyan University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Along with Zoe Tuck, they co-edit Hot Pink Magazine, a poetry venture, at hotpinkmag.com

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he would like to thank actual clouds

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in the gym the ad for bipolar medication had delicate bisexual lighting

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between the lesbians and the bisexuals everyone is in the right and there is fighting

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look brothers! look brothers!

we have captured a beast in a glass and it tastes soooooo good!

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the ease with which the language comes is but a distraction from whence it came

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the podcast about cults tackles Disney Adults, refuses to take a side, admits to owning the ears, critiques capitalism, and at some length compliments the food

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do i look sexy? no

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in the rooms the women cum n go

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instead of a cloud there is a sky of dirt – no answer – unanswering clod 

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for best picture the winner goes to this selfie i took four years ago

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self is as self does and self follows what self allows and what self allows

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two youths crouched in the image of me in a meadow

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