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author bio:

theodore knapsack
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Text here blah blah blah
two poems
 
 

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prt 1

    sharp of  _____  _

(and slghtst of mffld noises)

  _tug arrow mouth to lung  ­­__ _ _

    __one, then the two_

      _red   and  blue,,

  __________prblm-

___-attic hospital diagram__________

 _______do_____n’t,______,hear,____________

       ____________th sharp of_ _ ___breath,__You_

              ______are required as hum  ___an to notice this______

            _ _ ___ ___   _TORTURER            and blanket

        __music  crying     stbb’d –like

  _______  _ _.

 prt 2

[]_____

    _watches cement

     _wash_______ov’r_

             __feet-steps

         _________lead off screen

     ____picture:close looks Snakes_____

                      &Oat Meal,

                          __________Vomit_

                     ________and________________

    _________________ BONES.  pctre:__

            ________________thecement,              watching always,

                                 go the lungs working-BLUE sticky thecement__

                                                 monsterswalloWEVErything________________

                                            _____________RED                                 sharpsticks-stab

                                    ______wounds____ _ ____ __ __ ___ _ _ _ .

                ___________red    arrows__         sharp

       ______sswllw.

           _mst

                 th_

                _ng

                  s__

                 _

                 _

 

 

 

 

 

 

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