For your immediate enjoyment, Timothy Gager has recorded "Moving Boxes" on BAM BAM SLAM. You can watch him read it now, for free!.
these boxes
become more
than strong white cardboard,
now loaded with books
and beauty products,
document the recent failure
of our once great relationship—
like my plants,
now recently withered
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"moving boxes" is roughly 102 words.
Timothy Gager is the author of "Short Street" and "Twenty-Six Pack", collections of short fiction, and two books of poetry, "The Same Corner of the Bar" and "We Needed A Night Out". He hosts the Dire Literary Series in Cambridge, Massachusetts every month and is the co-founder of Somerville News Writers Festival, where he has shared the stage with Pulitzer Prize winners Franz Wright and Robert Olen Butler.
Issue 5...WRAPS A SCIENTIFIC CORE WITH OUR MOST ECLECTIC SELECTION TO DATE—including two mini graphic novels and a script that will have you bubbling over with mirth.
Phoebus is a good, simple-minded backwoods kid who idolizes his big brother Kenny. Kenny, not much brighter, is full of spunk, full of himself, and full of plans. His plans generally revolve around getting away from the small town he grew up in and "being someone". His father (but not Phoebus') was a small-time crook, and Kenny dreams of being more, of pulling off something "big".