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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
{the violence of the light}
  howie good



1
Refugees from universal famine invented philosophy. We’ll need a better alibi for what happened next.

2
The goldfish I won at the Bucks County Fair when I was eight never said whether a wise man will make money. It just swam around inside the clear plastic bag.

3
In this city, anything can happen to anyone. A cop, big gut hanging over his gun belt, shined a light in my face in broad daylight. “Place not the candle against the wall,” someone should’ve told me before now.