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Mark Bibbins is the author of the poetry collections The Dance of No Hard Feelings; Sky Lounge, which received a Lambda Literary Award; and They Don’t Kill You Because They’re Hungry, They Kill You Because They’re Full (Copper Canyon Press, 2014). He teaches in the graduate writing program at the New School and at Columbia University and lives in New York City.

Bring Us a Souvenir from the Next War

by Mark Bibbins

In Antwerp this afternoon the Museum of Anaesthesia,
the reason one goes to Antwerp, is closed. A way

to translate nowhere into nothing and the inhalation
thereof becomes a boon, a freak rush around the sun.
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