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noodle manifesto, from a failed state poetry.
by atef ayadi

a tax return for a bankrupt government of one.
a business plan where
the only profit is stolen office supplies.
a united nations speech
delivered to empty chairs made of noodles.

(my autist kid audits the books:
"your metaphors don’t depreciate correctly.")
two!!,
change in a changing world of moods as modes.

......

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Ghost Town
by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

I saw one with the placidness of death
A necropolis pummelled, with mallets of sorrow,
By the brutishness of Silence and numbed by the
Prickly shafts of premature grey hair, sickly and odorous.
Even Tokyo, normally awash with people and pets,
Pots and pans, observed the rules of siesta.
I witnessed it —a virus so vicious —!
A plague that humbled one and all —
Troglodytes we!

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Recent Tokyo Poems
noodle manifesto, from a failed state poetry.
by atef ayadi

a tax return for a bankrupt government of one.
a business plan where
the only profit is stolen office supplies.
a united nations speech
delivered to empty chairs made of noodles.

(my autist kid audits the books:
"your metaphors don’t depreciate correctly.")
two!!,
change in a changing world of moods as modes.

......

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Ghost Town
by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

I saw one with the placidness of death
A necropolis pummelled, with mallets of sorrow,
By the brutishness of Silence and numbed by the
Prickly shafts of premature grey hair, sickly and odorous.
Even Tokyo, normally awash with people and pets,
Pots and pans, observed the rules of siesta.
I witnessed it —a virus so vicious —!
A plague that humbled one and all —
Troglodytes we!

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