Genius in a Bottle
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Genius in a Bottle

Poem From the archives

Penciling Escape

From the late 1990s or early aughts

Scratching my pencil into a gray hole
widening, deepening, smoothening
the jump.

If you stare long enough
it looks like you can be sucked down
into the three-dimensional graphite womb.

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