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Tuesday, December 20, 2016

YELP REVIEW: NORTH CAROLINA STATEHOUSE

by Jesse Bradley




Here, the sorest losers are a swarm
of wasps; they treat democracy
like a neck trickling with sweat.

With enough stings, your throat swells
until the protest dies
before it can leave your tongue.


J. Bradley is the winner of Five [Quarterly]'s 2015 e-chapbook contest for fiction.