MaxMagenta

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ease

his smile slid and creaked
rusty; without ease of use
the tin man is awake

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cluster

sweet pecan clusters
petrichor mixed with syrup
farmers market rain

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rock

we drift on this rock
lonely blue marble; we shout
words into the void

july 3, 1971 the longer i live the more i think we should all be so lucky to wind up famous and dead in a bathtub at 27.

Youth is gone in the blink of an eye. But, for one brief moment, we see the infinity that resides within the night sky, and we are allowed to witness that what we have created will live forever.

*From the zine 'The 27 Club,' ©2025 Max Magenta

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Today's the day for SlamShop II ! If you are in the Chicago-Metro area and have no plans this afternoon, drop by...

1pm-4pm Schaumburg Library

~ Chief

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hire

icy rain impacts
like hired assassins bullets
winter maintains grip

Flyer for Milwaukee Zine Fest, and email header saying we were accepted to vend at this fest. Exciting!

We got in. HOLY SH*T.

More info to come later.

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end

universe heat death
may not be the end; perhaps
another big bang?

Seeking Resident Artist respond to lonelywritersclubnw@gmail.com

It is with a sad tone that I must report that the LWCNW's association with Bruiseb3rry as our resident artist has come to a close. We wish her well, but as per her wishes, we are ending our partnership (effective immediately).

Our loss is your gain:

#winterofdiscontent #lonelywritersclubnw

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occur

recently it had
occurred to me; peonies
might outlive us all

Post an album that was important to you when you were 11.

~

I had it on cassette tape and literally played it so much I wore it out...

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debut

shy fox kits debut
bejeweled faces at dawn
sunrise debutantes

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ban

in silent forests
none spoke, empathy now banned
only loss remained

The cover artist is Patrick Tighe

IG @ pad_thai81

cover of issue #34, 'the inflated graveworm' zine. Trippy visuals with spoopy and dark imagery.

dark oak upon this particular midnight i had seen from the corner of my vision a smear of something black a void insisting that i ignore the sliding into space it took up chitenous rattling of tooth to bone i knew him a hesitation in his gait the thumping of a missing limb upon wooden planks still sounding entirely wrong wet thunks of charnel meat against the most souless of oak former asylum residents reject the reclamation vehemently yet, their cries are trapped within the woodgrain of amontillado like tears in amber mortar i could not help but shiver when i discovered the smudge had moved to the other corner of my eye and that its foul mouth was open and ready to swallow me sins and all.

I recently was published in the 'Inflated Graveworm,' an independent publication out of Ohio; This is from issue #34, entitled 'dark oak'

And yes, that cover is sick AF.

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glare

weeping sunrise eyes
caught between loss and the glare
harsh despair backlit

We did a thing!

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rant

a grey squirrel rants
purloined nut held in crows beak
dawn cacophony

Issue #2 is finally in the can! Took a bit to massage it over the finish line, but we wound up where we needed to.

I'll make it available digitally by the end of week.

More to come then.

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face

warm salutations
sun-dappled spring memories
dreaming faces smile

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pause

end of winter brings
pregnant pause of coming springs
barren cold gives way

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pack

fox kits underhill
packed in fecund root filled dens
earthen womb births spring

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clip

dove lands; rough concrete
peace wings clipped and silenced voice
lingering unrest

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undo

he is alone, cold
he could not save her love
sweater now undone

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equip

i am not equipped
spiritually to handle
abject cruelty

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maintain

the star-crossed lovers
maintain close proximity
yet have empty hands

Started a new day job this week @ the local comic/game shop. It's only been a few days and I now know more about Pokemon than I ever thought possible. Imagine what I'll know next week.

bruised fruits (in japanese markets) my words were uncertain at first tip-toeing around the present participle and finally settling upon it like georgia coastal mud after helene are you ok? i thought but it came out of my disassociating mouth as why are you fucking this all up? now quiet and somehow smaller your tiring eyes sliding through mine like kisses from a scalpel wielding shaking fingers from a part time mad woman trying to take your hand in mine feeling like wood pulp against my own newsprint sharp edge papercut and then falling flat i dont mean to treat you as paper its just that you are always folding so easily smaller and smaller until you are disappearing within the creases of the sheet surrounding a small bruised pear in a busy japanese market.

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bruised fruits (in japanese markets) my words were uncertain at first tip-toeing around the present participle and finally settling upon it like georgia coastal mud after helene are you ok? i thought but it came out of my disassociating mouth as why are you fucking this all up? now quiet and somehow smaller your tiring eyes sliding through mine like kisses from a scalpel wielding shaking fingers from a part time mad woman trying to take your hand in mine feeling like wood pulp against my own newsprint sharp edge papercut and then falling flat i dont mean to treat you as paper its just that you are always folding so easily smaller and smaller until you are disappearing within the creases of the sheet surrounding a small bruised pear in a busy japanese market.

#writingcommunity #writing
#poetrycommunity #poetry
#Emoetry #uncertain #bruisedfruit

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roast

fake apology
youtube "star" indiscretions
roasted in comments