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Poetry of Issue 9: Data Spill

Data Spill (telegram)

Under the briny assumption

            that

every imported anxiety is

            in fact

its own love child,

Can we not

            all concur

that every

            data spill

is

            in fact

a slow motion

            fuse

to a body

            about to

what?

            Take a turn?

Find a muse?

            Birth a nation?

Burn a flag?

And that

            despite

our best

            try

the fish fry

            unravels

in verse,

            verdict,

and villanelles

            given the grace

to tell.

Mike Jurkovic

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