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April 16, 2019

CODEINE
FENTANYL
HYDROCODONE
EVERYTHING IS
HYDROMORPHONE
MEPERIDINE
METHADONE
UNDER CONTROL
MORPHINE
OXYCODONE
OXYMORPHONE

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Joel Allegretti is the author of, most recently, Platypus (NYQ Books, 2017), a collection of poems, prose, and performance texts, and Our Dolphin (Thrice Publishing, 2016), a novella. He is the editor of Rabbit Ears: TV Poems (NYQ Books, 2015), the first anthology of poetry about the mass medium. The Boston Globe called Rabbit Ears “cleverly edited” and “a smart exploration of the many, many meanings of TV.”

Photo by Anastasia Dulgier.

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