week twelve

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smokey pay

when you ask a firefighter

if it's going to be a bad forest fire year

are you asking if there'll be lots of fires?

or if it's going to be a bad year

to be a forest firefighter

who doesn't get hazard pay

overtime pay

holiday pay

sunday differential pay

because there are no forest fires to fight?

record amounts of precipitation

for the month of june

means that firefighters are stuck

dressing up like smokey the bear

for the provo/lehi/payson/alpine parades

and before you ask - no,

there is no such thing as smokey pay.

smokey the bear wants you

to start forest fires

trav clark

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imagine dungeons and dragons

my pants don't fit no more

maybe its cause i eat ez take out burgers all the time and

delicious milk shakes from del taco

or maybe its cause the pants i wear

are ones i stole

from the boys and girls club before they laid me off

wow im poor now and if anyone wants to help me pay

my utility bill

let me know

chris duce

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blessed autotrophs

light makes by carbon fixation
a forest out of air,

a small part of which becomes a
red coil-less notebook of

micro-perforated sheets that
holds a few of my poems.


break dancing

step to the music.
hand in hand
hand to back
step turn step.
eye contact.
smile.

i twist her arm sharply
out of socket

pop!

she kicks my knee backwards
against the bone

snap!

austinrory hackett

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dear artists,

great photography + boob guest appearances = not my favorite photography. it really hurts when i find some gnarly photographers who do it for me, then end up throwing me a curveball with their completely unnecessary theme of "the girls". i get it. it's natural. edgy. beautiful. artistic. whatever. but come on. we all know what they look like. let's set our sights outside of the boobie box. there's plenty of other body parts that are potentially photogenic. for instance, feet. or maybe even faces. now, i understand that we all have the right to free press. expression. art. i also get that our bodies are magical things that we should love and appreciate. and i do. but perhaps bude art should be left to the painters? not the self proclaimed hipsters who think that their last addition of that nipple was just what the project needed? i don't know. these are just ideas.

best regards,

ifiwanttoseethemilltakeashower

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satan is pretty smart

i want instant gratification.
i hate saving up for things.
i want them now.
i dont care if he will hurt me later
i love him now.
i dont care if this is fattening
it tastes good now.
i hate that it feels good now
and later feels wrong.
i know ill be tired tomorrow
but right now i want to stay up.
i want to be happy now.
i wont bother about yesterday
and tomorrow is too far.
ill do anything, for right now.
anything.
anything?
satan is pretty smart.

aly cain

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they're running out

they're running out

they're running out

they're running out of batterrrrrrryyyyyy

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no batteries!

++anonymous++

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small talk with a new neighbor

oh hi.

yeah, just getting home from work.

it is hot, isn't it? well, have a...

oh. really? 115 degrees? a puddle of your own sweat? no kidding.

i didn't know it got that hot in 'nam.

well, i guess i shouldn't complain then.

see you...what was that?

yes, i guess i do a fair amount of shopping.

yeah, i guess you're right. a cold pack really might help me out.

well, it was sure nice meeting you.

sara thomas

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indians migrate? gone? or i'm never going to? or killed? in limbo? love you... oh, u!!!

dane cannon

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i sang with a gospel choir tonight

it was an unforgettable experience

there was no way that I could possibly blend in
so i decided that i had to be comfortable being different-

comfortable being myself.

i was the only 'white' person in the whole show

i sounded different,

looked different,

worshipped different-

but i felt a strange impression

that i was there for a reason-

breaking through invisible barriers that keep too many apart.

bianca merkley

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i am a man, but i once gave birth to an angel.

++anonymous++

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