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    Crumb-sized: Poems
    Crumb-sized: Poems
    Crumb-sized: Poems
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    Crumb-sized: Poems

    By Marlena Chertock

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Unnamed Press
    Release dateAug 15, 2017
    ISBN9781944700485
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      Crumb-sized - Marlena Chertock

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      The Unnamed Press

      P.O. Box 411272

      Los Angeles, CA 90041

      Published in North America by The Unnamed Press.

      1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2

      Copyright 2017 © Marlena Chertock

      978-1-944700-48-5

      Library of Congress Control Number:

      Available upon request.

      This book is distributed by Publishers Group West

      Designed & typeset by Robert Bieselin

      All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.

      Permissions inquiries may be directed to info@unnamedpress.com.

      For Poppop, for always believing

      in my far-fetched dreams.

      contents

      Title Page

      Copyright

      Dedication

      The martian comes to me

      Application to NASA

      Crumb-sized

      Unfold me gently

      I am rotting log of wood

      Recipe to reduce pain

      1 to 10

      Las estrellas de la Atacama

      Lookback time

      You magnify the universe

      Life on exoplanets

      I stormed all night

      I give a cosmic middle finger

      A blackbody

      GiftGas!

      Moon, or no moon

      Jello

      Suddenly I was stung on the dance floor

      Things that don’t suck

      Rikkud

      It should be called womenstruate

      At 13 I lived in the forest

      Tin·ni·tus

      Smaller than a crumb

      Ode to my physical therapist

      This isn’t a poem about motherhood

      Rearrange your DNA

      Harriet Tubman was disabled

      How to feel beautiful

      Acknowledgments

      About the Author

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