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Currents Brice AfonsoWorks in ProgressNibha AkireddyPlaying for DaysJon BennettRoman Candle  Oliver Beatty001: Potential Energy
Playlist
Hayden Carr-Loize and Pheobe Lippe
Cascade, Tooth, Circular Panel  
Sarah Chess
Expectations
Madeline Haze Curtis
Transmission I: spit with sonic weather
Claire Dauge-Roth
Try to Run
Clay Davis
Planning Time Off
Clay Davis
PoemSam ErteltUntitledUgo FerroUntitled, UntitledVitya FitsnerGray Cloud on San Jacinto PlazaDagoberto GilbThe Drunken WalkRobert Pogue HarrisonDead Friend Haunts Man with Mismatched Flip-Flops R. W. Haynes'On ne part pas' disait Rimbaud, FUWA, Journal
Marie Hazard
NorCal Wave (Series)
Eva Hoffman
Carlos y Pablo, agua y espuma, and other paintingsMaría Fragoso Jara
The Ballad of Jeff Bezos 
Margot Kaiser
And the Days Are
Not Full Enough

Lulu Lebowitz
The Many Lives of Energy
Anna-Sofia Lesiv
Douma, Schizein
Chrstipher Lyr
Pristine
Douglas Milliken
Tu es d'une sucrerie diabolique
Mona Neilson
Process of Sculpting Dream, Block-In of a Young ManKaelin PalcuOn the Street, In the Arena
Jonah Pruitt
Letter to You as a Tallgrass Meridian
Maxwell Putnam
Pandæmonium
Matthew Schultz
Spin, Measure, Cut
Molly Pepper Steemson
Untitled, Untitled
Oliver Stokes-Curtis
L'AppesaLorraine de ThibaultDiálogos IBruna VettoriAnonymized LetterxDirt Poem
Rachel Wolfe
Metanoia Arina ZhuravlevaUntitled #11 Arina ZhuravlevaLife as a Work of Art:
Henri Bergson on Possibility and Creation
Clara Zimmermann






Playing for Days

Jon Bennett
In between jobs
I go to a casino
I want to write a novel
not the great American one
but something
I beseech fate
I ask the Devil
to flip through his Rolodex
and make me a winner
I win $3,000
enough to last a month
of 10 page days
On my first free day
I go to the bar
I
have a pack of Export As
and some pain pills
I sharpen my pencils and
arrange everything neatly
on the beer damp counter
On day 2 I’m there again
trying to write
and I imagine
that casino again
reliving the win
as I lose
the days.





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