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  • The Delicacy and Beauty of These Structures
  • Glenn Shaheen (bio)

I could lose some majorpoundage and here we arein the era of being able touse metal in such a safeand acute manner, to change ourlooks. I wouldn't rememberit, the metal. They don't let youfilm surgery, keep it for later,unwatched in a drawer betweencopies of old video games nolonger even compatible withmodern computers. A gumballcircling the center drain. I saidsafe but of course it's not safe,many people die slimming down,die from anesthesia mostly, adrowning you don't even know.A place a clue was carefully laidfor you, but a stranger removedit first. If I could afford it I'd havemyself rearranged with stutterand slump, with grace and aflat sort of stomach one seeson billboards. The deathwouldn't be such a big deal,the possible death, enteringinto it from the vacuum of selfanesthesia builds. The constellationsunknowable here in the trenchesof civilization, our neighbors too.Every day there seems to be fewerstars but that's just another illusionas more lights are built on groundas more smog sticks to the sky. [End Page 29]

Glenn Shaheen

Glenn Shaheen is the author of the poetry collections Predatory and Energy Corridor, both from the Pitt Poetry Series, and the flash fiction chapbook Unchecked Savagery, from Ricochet Editions.

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