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Then Bring It Double (12 & 35)

John Rodzvilla

Then bring it double—
                                                      indulgences for the past.
How he has sown love
                                                      so rough and thin.
Must he tear the arm beside
                                                      his soul?
He turned half a mile down
                                                      on a certain busy street
We all know.
                                                      Liberty was sold.

His papers impressed with little incident.

John Rodzvilla, teaches in the Publishing and Writing programs at Emerson College in Boston and is working on two interactive digital chapbooks. His work has appeared in Harvard Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, gorse, DecomP, Verbatim and Bad Robot Poetry. He can be found at rodzvilla.com.

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ISSUE THIRTEEN: Ye, Smelly Tsar

Ashanti Anderson
   Goddam

Alan Elyshevitz
   BLDG A, STE 4-22

Deidre O’Connor
   Vision at a Dublin Airport Hotel

Claire Scott
   The Morning After

Daniel Lasell
   Above What's Under

Chey Davis
   The Indictment

Hilary Sideris
   Park

John Rodzvilla
   Then Bring It Double (12 & 35)

Kathleen McClung
   After the Election

Matthew W. Schmeer
   Disturbing the Peace

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