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***BIO*** J. Bradley is based out of Orlando, FL.  Some of the magazines featuring his work include decomP, Ozone Park, Dash Literary Journal, The Ampersand Review and will be in upcoming issues of Word Riot, Queen City Review, and Poor Mojo's Almanac(k).   His first book, Dodging Traffic, comes out this fall through Ampersand Books.  Check out J. Bradley's official blog, Failure Loves Company, at iheartfailure.wordpress.com.
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Our Sex Is An Orange Alert
by J. Bradley
His face was like a vest
of pipe bombs when almost
making himself a martyr
in the bazaar of her mouth.

She left pockets of anthrax
in his shoulder blades, his hair
a village where children
wore oil like smoking jackets.

They panted like abandoned
ballots, clutched sheets
like they were UN monitors
who would do something.

As his throbbing 747 crashed
into her Trade Center,
the walls leaped towards doom
and grace.
Nov. 2009
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