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 Jan 2014 Julia
Daniel Magner
If you could live
twice
you'd spend your entire
second life
trying to relive
the
first
Daniel Magner 2014
 Jan 2014 Julia
Daniel Magner
Someone to
lay in bed with
listening to
Red, Red Wine
lip syncing
dramatically
to every
line
"Just one thing makes me forget, red, red, wine"

Daniel Magner 2014
 Jan 2014 Julia
Reece AJ Chambers
What colour are Mondays?
Red? Well mine are.
The same colour
you’d imagine a headache to be,
tomatoes, morello cherries
or like a nosebleed.

Does that mean Tuesdays are blue?
That mouthwash shade,
brain-freeze after a Slushie.
Wednesdays? Perhaps purpley-pink
as burning potassium,
Parma Violets under your tongue.

Thoughts on Thursdays?  Fake-tanned,
tangerine skin, the ugliest orange
for the ugliest day.
But Fridays are a healthier green,
think telephone-pole celery,
cucumber truncheons and kiwis.

Saturdays then? Funeral black
speckled with brown sugar
though Sundays are white.
Hurts-your-eyes-like-snow white,
almost transparent, for they come
and dash by with no tone in-between.
Written: January and March 2014.
Explanation: A poem written on the theme of colour for university.
 Jan 2014 Julia
Daniel Magner
Flash
 Jan 2014 Julia
Daniel Magner
"You're cute!"
jumped off the walls
of the ally
"Except you're smoking
a cigarette so now
you aren't"
unbelievably
my spirits were raised
till she stumbled
into a car
with a drunk
driver

if there is a
crash
I hope she becomes
a
survivor
Daniel Magner 2014
 Jan 2014 Julia
Nat Lipstadt
the neighbors would hate me
tween 11 and 6:00pm

when I sing we must of true detective stories
of unrequited love, death,
the stony stink of
the poverty of starvation
of body and soul,

the stuff that makes
the paper librettos
come alive,
but my lease reads:

The Renter is required to refrain from singing between the hours of 11:00pm and 6:00am.
Writing poetry is not only permissible, but encouraged.
For Livi
 Jan 2014 Julia
K Balachandran
Little speckled bird,
quirky nerd, owl eyes-
gleaming behind the glasses,
often you zoom inwards
and land in that never never land
beyond the reach of most,
yet I am in love with your
ingeniousness that defies words.
bit strange it may sound
but I am one who explores
the hidden spaces beyond
my desired comfort zones.
they warn me saying a nerd
is a killjoy, nothing else
Swimming against the tide
I hear your excited chirps inside
making me restless with anticipation,
my intellectual slant
received your approval,
many times,I am hopeful
growing my beard long
I'll wait here, till you return
completing your mission.
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