"Crumbled to smoke"
Graves, Addonizio, Plath, Kosinski, Xing
Robert Graves:
Kim Addonizio:
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Sylvia Plath:
Jerzy Kosinski:
Sheng Xing (tr. from Chinese by Simon Patton):
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...jesus. I haven't read any Graves for a while. That one got to me, and much in the rest, too, but jesus...
Can't put a little red heart icon next to this Sharpener dispatch,. Brutal little machines, each of these dispatches, with the aim of Kosinki's sniper. ". . .death/in his brown uniform/is cruising his panel truck /of packages through your neighborhood." How did she know?