• Scary Movies by Kim Addonizio

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• "-- This / is how it feels to lose it— // not sanity, I mean, but whatever it is / that helps you get up in the morning / and actually leave the house / on those days when it seems like death // in his brown uniform / is cruising his panel truck / of packages through your neighborhood. / I think of a friend’s voice // on her answering machine— / Hi, I’m not here— / the morning of her funeral, / the calls filling up the tape // and the mail still arriving, / and I feel as afraid as I was / after all those vampire movies / when I’d come home and lie awake // all night, rigid in my bed, / unable to get up --"

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• Stay by Kim Addonizio

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• "-- Please wait for the transmissions, however faint. / Listen: when a stranger steps into the elevator with a / bouquet of white roses not meant for you, // they're meant for you."