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Stephen Danos is author of the chapbooks Missing Slides (Horse Less Press, 2016), DO NOT WANT (alice blue books, 2015) and Playhouse State (H_NGM_N Books, 2012). His poems and writing have appeared in American Letters & Commentary, City Arts, Columbia Poetry Review, Fanzine, Pleiades, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere. He is Editor-in-Chief of Pinwheel and lives in Seattle.
these men
are overused, old at thirty-five, ancient
at forty. Brawls and head-butts at half court,
enlarged hearts, divine idolatry.
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