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May 28, 2013
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"Do you think the dictionary ever says to itself
I’ve got these words that mean completely
different things inside myself
and it’s tearing me apart?"

— Dean Young in an excerpt from “Selected Recent and New Errors”

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April 15, 2012
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"I was satisfied with haiku until I met you,
jar of octopus, cuckoo’s cry, 5-7-5,
but now I want a Russian novel,
a 50-page description of you sleeping,
another 75 of what you think staring out
a window."

— Dean Young, excerpt from “Changing Genres”

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