The mayor is missing, the mafia is involved, a mad scientist rules the basement and all the prostitutes are vampires.
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Todd Martens,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Oct. 2026
Instead of collectivity, there is a certain kind of animal community, or one that the poems’ speakers—children, old men, drunks, prostitutes—often stand apart from.
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