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little red strip mall
Tell me it’s getting late. Know, please. Don’t look, just know. We’re at the bottom of a pool or in an aged motel— A rock or your little finger skips across Yellowed walls and bodies itch or buzz fluorescent. People forget, everything lingers turquoise. I know a guy who won’t shut up about frequencies–says that colors are withering or corroding like plants or knives in a stuffy kitchen. Blames air conditioning and the internet. Soon, there will be no pigments. Thick glass p
Cole Barrios
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Pumpkin Foam
It was a hollow red, and it smelled like burning, and it crusted over leaf-tips on stems in pots. If they were real, and not...
Cole Barrios
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Purple People-Eaters and Blue Dinosaurs
A ball of yarn swathed in brown flesh rolling down asphalt hills it keeps getting bigger and bigger like an evil snowball. Worst of all,...
Cole Barrios
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When Thoughts Become Asteroids
drip. Boom. tack. What I know is twofold: water makes the olive drum beat, and my pillowcase fills up, one grain at a time. Filtered...
Cole Barrios
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Ultra-Violet Desk Lamp - A Pantoum
I never want to read again. Printed river, carve me through Let me know when studies shiver like song, when single-file lines crease like...
Cole Barrios
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Bean-Filled Body
Over the summer, I was abandoned on a concrete bench. Pants and stone alike were slathered in colorful acrylics that bled from every...
Cole Barrios
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Pie-Pulled Profiteers
Pilfered, picked on, pummeled through, I am the one who points at you! Hungered, eaten, severed boar; Two to steal and eight to store....
Cole Barrios
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White Noise
The fan whirred softly. I recognized the hum; a noise That could only be heard In absence; a love Felt most strongly In absence; a...
Cole Barrios
Jun 10, 20241 min read
Glow
They’re lying, probably; Fur isn’t really that blue, and what you’re hearing are— although this could be a lie too—black valleys, green...
Cole Barrios
Jun 10, 20241 min read
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