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  • A Brief Encyclopedia of Modern Magic
  • The Hieroglyphics
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  • Words, A Pleasure
  • Mother, Mother
  • An Epic of Long Women
  • They
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  • The Children’s Factory
  • Red
  • Concerning Fire
  • Excerpt from Sebastian
  • The Bee
  • The Devil, a Digression
  • Excerpt from A Brief Encyclopedia of Modern Magic
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  • Pretty to Eat
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  • Sin Body II
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  • The End of the World
  • Excerpt from The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo
  • The Beggars of Talahra
  • Concerning Angels
  • A Humiliation of Sparrows
  • Miner’s Dreams
Michael Stewart
About
  • Books
  • A Brief Encyclopedia of Modern Magic
  • The Hieroglyphics
  • Sebastian, an Illustrated Book for Adults
  • Almost Perfect Forms
  • Stories
  • My Landlord and I
  • Twin Sisters
  • Words, A Pleasure
  • Mother, Mother
  • An Epic of Long Women
  • They
  • Moon Men
  • The Children’s Factory
  • Red
  • Concerning Fire
  • Excerpt from Sebastian
  • The Bee
  • The Devil, a Digression
  • Excerpt from A Brief Encyclopedia of Modern Magic
  • Women of the Alps
  • Insects
  • Father, Father
  • Pretty to Eat
  • Sin Body I
  • Sin Body II
  • Sin Body III
  • Moths I
  • Moths II
  • The End of the World
  • Excerpt from The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo
  • The Beggars of Talahra
  • Concerning Angels
  • A Humiliation of Sparrows
  • Miner’s Dreams

Words, A Pleasure

Previously published in Juste Milieu
Boys, Beautiful
Decorating coffee shops. Our perfect skin; cigarettes and violence like virtue.
Cigarettes
always that taste of lipstick, you borrow. A breathing.
Violet
The stuttering smell of. Like an asthmatic’s orgasm.