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ALYSE KNORR & M. MACK
From S/M BROS




PROLOGUE
pixel plucked Peach     //     gagged&tied
in a castle.     //     rescue fetish:

girls tied to railroad    //     tracks        girls
stuck in towers tall as     //     their hair
girls locked     blocked    knocked    //    out
//          (princess of mushrooms Olive of Oyl
the one King Kong grabbed     //     & Lois O Lois Dear
Lane).     //     meanwhile, deep in the grunge-set
green screen of Brooklyn     //     M gets this note:
“     IRONY
IRONY IRONY
           IRONY IRONY
I     RON      Y
           RICE         A
       RON    I
RICEARONIRONY    ”
& thus it begins, tho I was never quiet--




REMEMBER THE NEW GUY


Mario brings his bro
on the road. Or his
lizard-car. Or his rec-
reational friend the
mushroom hat. One girl
is in a tower and one
girl is in another
tower and she drives
go-carts but she does
n’t ride shells punch bricks
collect any macho shit.
Some talented Italian might
be in the wings but the
standard cast of char-
acters just puts on tails
suits and frog legs and
other drag fineries and they
go on as if they are new
and also as if they are
exciting.




OBVIOUSLY RACCOONS CAN FLY

she said & i had no objection
put on the suit as she watched
me like that night i stumbled 1-up
drunk to her castle apt. &
told her i couldn’t live any life
w/out her she said okay when
should we tell the kingdom?
tomorrow i said & left next
morning she called: too much
cough syrup can’t remember any
thing wish you all the best
i shivered & shrunk & fell off
screen one more down & so
many worlds left to fight thru
it was all just like that & so hot
worms were frying alive on the
cobbled pathways their bodies
weird black S’s dried up & askew
but i put on the suit i flapped my
tail i took off i could see her i could
see all the way down to the ground




​

ALYSE KNORR is the author of Copper Mother (Switchback Books, 2015), Annotated Glass (Furniture Press Books) and the chapbook Alternates(dancing girl press). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, Alice Blue Review, Birdfeast Magazine, Caketrain, and Drunken Boat, among others. She lives and writes in Anchorage, Alaska.

M. MACK writes in or around Washington, D.C. Mack’s work can be found in APARTMENT Poetry Quarterly, Gargoyle, Cactus Heart, and elsewhere.

​ALYSE KNORR and M. MACK received their MFAs from George Mason University. They are two founding editors of Gazing Grain Press.
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    • ISSUE 1 >
      • LILY DUFFY & SUMMER GREER
      • xTx
      • ESZTER TAKACS
      • JON STEINHAGEN
      • QUINN WHITE
      • RUTH BAUMANN
      • PORTIA ELAN
      • HOWIE GOOD
      • KRISTINA BORN
      • DANIEL ROMO
      • KAT FINCH
      • JAKE SYERSAK
      • MATT ROWAN
      • CODY KLIPPENSTEIN
    • ISSUE 2 >
      • RACHEL LEVY
      • MARK SCROGGINS
      • DAVID TOMALOFF
      • JULIANA LESLIE
      • JESSICA JENKINS
      • JOHN OLSON
      • KIM STOLL
      • JESSE MACK
      • NATE PRITTS
    • ISSUE 3 >
      • KEN TAYLOR
      • JOSHUA MARIE WILKINSON
      • JOSHUA HARMON
      • PJ WILLIAMS
      • ERIC BAUS
      • MICHAEL JOSEPH WALSH
      • PARKE COOPER
      • CHARLES ALEXANDER
      • J/J HASTAIN
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      • CAROLINE CREW
      • NICHOLAS GRIDER
      • GEORGE KALAMARAS
      • JOSEPH LUCIDO
      • LIZ MCGEHEE
      • MARTIN CORLESS-SMITH
      • RACHEL SPRINGER
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      • ABRAHAM SMITH
      • MICHELLE DOVE
      • RUSSELL JAFFE
      • MATHIAS SVALINA
      • SARA NICHOLSON
      • ALYSSE KNORR & Mx MACK
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      • CAROLINE CABRERA
      • DAVID BARTONE
      • NOAH ELI GORDON & DAVID PERRY
      • ALEXIS ALMEIDA
      • KYLE BASSETT
      • KATIE WILLINGHAM
      • ROB MACDONALD
      • CARLEEN TIBBETTS
      • J MICHAEL MARTINEZ
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      • ADRIAN KIEN
      • AMBER NELSON
      • LIAM SWANSON
      • BECKA MARA MCKAY
      • ANDREW JORON
      • CLAIRE CRONIN
      • PHILIP SCHAEFER
      • RJ INGRAM
      • RACHEL MINDELL
      • WILL ALEXANDER
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      • TANEUM BAMBRICK
      • ELENI SIKELIANOS
      • GEORGE KALAMARAS
      • RYAN BOLLENBACH
      • JOHN GALLAHER & KRISTINA MARIE DARLING
      • JOSHUA YOUNG
      • OREN SILVERMAN
      • KATIE JEAN SHINKLE
      • JOSHUA COREY
    • ISSUE 9 >
      • GALE MARIE THOMPSON
      • JOS CHARLES
      • CRAIG FOLTZ
      • MICHAEL SIKKEMA
      • JOSEPH LEASE
      • EVE KENNEALLY
      • TYRONE WILLIAMS
      • ALISHA BRUTON
      • C VIOLET EATON
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      • EMILY O'NEILL
      • JEFF ALESSANDRELLI
      • VINCENT TORO
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      • MARTY CAIN
      • ZACHARY EVANS
      • DYLAN KRIEGER
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      • MAGGIE WOODWARD
      • JULIA MADSEN
      • BRUNO RIOS translated by ROBERTO TEJADA
      • DENNIS JAMES SWEENEY
      • TIM EARLEY
      • JOSEPH MASSEY
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      • MICHAEL MARTIN SHEA
      • GRAHAM FOUST
      • WILL NEWMAN
      • RAQUEL SALAS RIVERA
      • JEFFREY LANCE
      • SYLVIA CHAN
      • THIRII MYO KYAW MYINT
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