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Working: Vol. 4, No. 2 - Issue 14 Summer 2025

The Compassionate Lover of Humanity​

Issue 13
Cutting ripping tearing the littles apart
is good is good
godliness of the body is mastery
in liberation, is good is good
cutting holes ripping tearing anti-anti-
worms inside the holes to keep
the little ones from knowing
knowing and knowing
is good is good
freedom freeing from the knowing by the
tearing ripping
to know to know to know the truth the truth
apart from you what is you
find you
out there in the worming cutting
Serrated piercing drawing
Jackknife round the ripper
Keep the little ones from growing
KEEP THE LITTLE ONES FROM SQUIRMING
Worming and worming, out out damn spot
can’t fight can’t grow is good is good
out out damn light
out out, damn worm,
out out you hole!
OUT OUT
OUT OUT
CUT the BLOSSOM
YOU KNOW YOU KNOW YOU LIAR YOU KNOW!

Henry Stafford-Lopez is an agricultural scientist from Minnesota and was educated at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse in Chemistry. He lives outside Saint Paul with his wife and their dog, Luther. He has not previously been published.

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