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The ad in the culture section stated, “No One Can Tell the Future,” but I didn’t read the rest because I wanted to find out what was on TV at ten. The doctor pulled the tip of the knife from her back and said, “It wasn’t that into you.” The editor thought our title, Poems that Live Forever, was premature. We visited all eight wonders of Kansas.

Four poems

Mark Cunningham

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Mark Cunningham lives in a state that recently ranked 46th out of 50 in terms of citizens’ happiness—as measured by the people who live in the states themselves. The main public university just came in ranked 102 out of 110 public universities. He has brownish hair, but he is always aware of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle—that if you observe a system or person’s behavior, you change it—so when he observes "himself" he wonders who he is really observing, and he can’t understand why being a voyeur should be so boring.