Colossal Failure & Other Misleading Terminology

Three Poems by Isobel McHattie

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COLOSSAL FAILURE & OTHER MISLEADING TERMINOLOGY

“I knew a ramen place that would let me pass 
if I flashed some genuine-ass stigmata
but they wouldn’t give me any cutlery
so I had to slurp it through my palms 
unfortunately”

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CONTAINMENT

clouds of dust engulf Krauts
watching bombs fall on Guinea pigs
in the sort of canyon an American would’ve shot a western in

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STRIKE!

combatants roll
over sand cloaked giants’ 
marble torsos

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