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Alessandro DiFrancesco, despite their name, is almost painfully American. When they read a character of Kurt Vonnegut’s description of the failed sci-fi author Kilgore Trout in Slaughterhouse-Five (“I don’t think Trout has ever been out of the country,” Rosewater went on. “My God—he writes about Earthlings all the time, and they’re all Americans”), they felt horribly...

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Becoming Thatch

The pragmatic businessman is always composed: abundant hair fixed in a quaff, gym-fit form clothed in cognac oxfords and a charcoal puppytooth suit, decisions made from behind a custom mahogany executive desk resting atop an oak parquet floor. Currently, however, he’s floating a few thousand feet above his ordered life.

Bothered, he turns this way and that. It’s quiet,...

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Blood Bag

The sky is bleeding rain. I am on 42nd Street and I cannot tell if I am wet or just cold. The sun is MIA.

Across from me is this mime making O shapes with his face, his hands flat against an invisible wall. The KFC bucket near his feet is full of coins (and Chuck E. Cheese coins). I start to wonder ...

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Syntropy

In bed, Morbidia consults her Magic 8 Ball, whose little blue triangle floats dramatically into view to say NO. She shakes it again. She shakes it again. She shakes it again. NO, NO, NO. Convinced, Morbidia dumps the palmful of lorazepam back into its bottle.

Breakfast: one Jimmy Dean microwavable sausage egg and cheese croissant sandwich, one cup of coffee. While eati...

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I wake pale and encircled
encircled by a purpling

A purple encircling
encircling my orbits

I orbit strangely
strangely orbited

My gravity uncertain
I wake grave and uncertain

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I wake grave and uncertain
my gravity uncertain

strangely orbited
I orbit strangely

encircling my orbits
A purple encircling...

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