“The Flea” hits even harder when you find out the original was printed with the long S, something Donne was surely playing with.
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![A series of short pieces of flash fiction. From top left: "The librarian secretly kept copies as fictional characters were exiled." - "This evening a person came up to Yamileth and haded a letter to her. The air was thick with anticipation." - "Sculpture" - "Rory was let go from the National Endowment for the Humanities. By a 22-year-old intern." - "Kaylani didn't see herself as a poet but she tried writing a poem about war anyway." - "The blue light of Noemi's phone bathed her face. Could the news be any worse?" - "Ring camera footage shows ICE arresting Blanca Camacho Navarro, a union organizer and legal immigrant with an American spouse." - "portrait" - "The shell casing dropped to the asphalt, the word 'delay' scribbled on it with a red sharpie." - "Fight." - "7 professors and students executed in Oklahoma with a Sig Sauer p226. RFK Jr. says the victims should have learned CPT." - "With bitter fury Taylor read poetry in allews where cameras couldn't see." - "More files were released today. Including photos of [name redacted] and [name redacted] in a hot tub." - "Simone wrote poetry that remained when monuments fell. Her poems filled Danielle's heart with a mixture of resignation and hope." - "Just after midnight you came across the message 'POWER TO THE PEOPLE' chaled on the street sign." - "See that salt water, and paper and gasoline, causing a fire"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gpmpz7xi4k5efyma3cfuxen3/bafkreiea3qopz3lhcwgoyvd3jzqf2w2ir6w54ovze5tiqlhs3ofuekom2i)
