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Dennis Mahagin

Asterisk when the bongos  go missing, some thief  made of alter ego and afterthought brushes the yellow Cobain cowlick out of his eyes, ducked down  behind the side door of a Portland pawn shop  —this percussionist  who sneaks around wearing the torn  to shit lumberjack  shirt, holding on to a fifty  like a heart beat in the stiffest breeze, and his guilty glance , simply a squeezed frame, it says these beats  basically the same, yet gone now and forever  gone, the beat like an add-on that the dead can’t put their finger on—go ahead, switch  to castanets  instead, I say,  and bottle caps—tubular bells  such as them that exist in The Exorcist, a thousand little whispers  like pop rocks from the backfire  of a flame, and a hearse: they say we missed you today in church, we missed you we missed you, astral  ...