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Raymond Montana
Raymond Montana

Raymond Montana

aka Brenton

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Raymond Montana
Raymond Montana
Jul 14 · 2 min read

Benedict Arnold

This is not a history or a thesis or an otherwise informed take on Benedict Arnold. I know two or three things about Benedict Arnold.

  1. He was some sort of American military man during the Revolutionary War, but then he famously (now, but not at the time, obviously) betrayed…
Raymond Montana
Raymond Montana
Jul 14 · 1 min read

Poem 4

I traded with a walleye on a wall
The deal of my life, no doubt
For now he lies awake at night
And I haven’t awaken since

Men walk and speak and doubt
And doubtless pray for doubtlessness
My God took that all away…

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Raymond Montana
Raymond Montana
Jul 14 · 4 min read

The Legend of the Boogeyman

Long ago, in a small village deep within the Wilted Wilderness, there lived a lonely, hideous creature. It had once had a name, yet those times had long since vanished into the cosmos. This beast was infamous amongst the villagers, who referred to him by a single, wretched name…

Raymond Montana
Raymond Montana
Jul 14 · 1 min read

Poem 3

A champion in a soybean
Or some garbled bullshit like that
My mind spared my memory
Of the exact verbal violence
But the idea and the audacity
Left their mark all the same

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Raymond Montana
Raymond Montana
Jul 14 · 1 min read

Poem 2

Don’t sleep, there are snakes
And things unsaid
And thoughts underlying
A mind afraid of underwater
Swimming, no, struggling
On the edge, indefinitely, of drowning