the only benefit
in viewing the world
from bedrock is that
you’re not the same idiot
you were when you leveled in the trench
in the first place

Allison Whittenberg is an award winning novelist and playwright. Her
poetry has appeared in Columbia Review, Feminist Studies,J Journal,
and New Orleans Review. Whittenberg is a six-time Pushcart Prize
nominee. They Were Horrible Cooks is her collection of poetry. Killing the Father of Our Country is her latest novel.

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