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Texit

by Joshua Sturgill

Feast of St Plato the Great Martyr of Ancyra

Anno Domini 2020, November 18

A story filmed

in California (aliens

devouring New York

again) tours

the straightedge states

and swells

the cinemas in Texas.

And for an hour, Texans

are amused, transported

to that strange, fantastic

Other America — taken in

by images sent back

from that country

where their soy beans

and their methane go.

But often now

for Texans, California

is just a major

motion picture, New York

little different than

Disney World — places

nice to visit, sure,

but a body

could never really live there.

*Joshua Sturgill's first collection of poetry, As Far As I Can Tell, was published by Darkly Bright Press and is available for purchase here.

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