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\"Brad<\/a><\/div>

Brad Morden<\/a><\/h3>
Bigger than Me \r\n \r\n\r\nThe poem is much bigger than me\r\nit was the very first lesson\r\nthat I learned\r\nto forget\r\nSo at first\r\nI would approach it\r\nunder moonlight\r\nI would shave pieces from its edges\r\nI would place them in my pocket\r\nAt poetry shows\r\nI...<\/div><\/div>\n
\"Khaleefa<\/a><\/div>

Khaleefa Hamdan<\/a><\/h3>
\u00a0Life is like \r\n \r\n\r\nLife is like the first time you exit your mom\u2019s womb & those tears are shed\r\nA foreshadowing of the years ahead, your fears, regrets, your peers, & debts\r\nAre all mapped out when those 2 tears hit the ground & as...<\/div><\/div>\n
\"Lara<\/a><\/div>

Lara Bozabalian<\/a><\/h3>
Reckless \r\n \r\n\r\nShe was the type of woman\r\nwho collected other people\u2019s impressions\r\nthe way hungry men collected food stamps.\r\nShe said she was fashioning a blueprint,\r\nshe needed an outline of things.\r\nShe didn\u2019t make sense to him.\r\nHe said, \u2018Ev...<\/div><\/div>\n
\"V\"<\/a><\/div>

V<\/a><\/h3>
Ashes to Ashes and Lust to Dust \r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nJudging by all the smoke up in this joint,\r\nI think it's safe to say\r\nthat we've shot gunned our relationship\r\nstraight into the bottom of this ashtray.\r\nIt's as if we didn't see this day coming or...<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-279","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/279\/revisions\/1001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}