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| ***BIO*** Andrew Rihn is the author of two chapbooks: While Grasshoppers Mate (Spare Change Press, 2008) and The Alphabetical Atheist (Scars Publications, 2009). Some say that Andrew is dead; others, that he joined the British Army. |
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| This Absence Smells Like a Landfill. |
| by Andrew Rihn |
| A crumbled Wendy’s bag
that no one bothers to clean up, day old french fries crawling out like fat greased worms, like the maggots that press and bulge the thin flesh of roadkill. There are no footpaths or bus stops, I can only walk near the guardrails. I never know which side to keep on: weeds on the one hand cars on the other, a thrill near the curves where it looks like the cars might just speed right over me, mow me down along with the dandelion stems that click on my shoes as I walk, sounding like untied laces and spreading their seeds. None of the drivers will notice the smell from inside their little glass cages bottlenecked at the stoplight, reminding me of Laura’s glass menagerie and all the silly daily things we do to survive. |
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| Oct. 2009 |
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