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DIAGRAM @EL_DIAGRAM Oct 2, 2024

ISSUE 24.3: thediagram.com

DIAGRAM @EL_DIAGRAM Sep 29, 2025

Excerpt of "Dance-Commands" by Oli Peters
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DIAGRAM @EL_DIAGRAM Sep 22, 2025

"Asparaguses. Aplomb. All the A states, I'm not gonna list em. Afflictions. Affections. Affectations. Achoo! Art. Arseholes and assholes. Affluent neighborhoods, but at least they have good Christmas lights."

From @GlennShaheen's "Am I a 'Good Person?'"
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DIAGRAM @EL_DIAGRAM Sep 19, 2025

"they'll make sure you know you wasted
their time, should have thought

harder, like concrete, harder, diamond,
brilliance forced up from the earth
and cut, so rare to be wanted."

1 of 4 poems by Angie Macri for our latest issue: thediagram.com/25_2/macri.html

This is a screenshot of a poem titled "APPREHENSION" that reads:

That to grasp, to seize, lay hold of
meant learning
but also dread
was instinct
even when we were little.
Not that way in the first place,
only once we came here and waited
in each line school made us wait in, coming,
going, all transitions,
meals, bus, recess, water fountain, bathroom.
Raise your hand to speak. Wait
until called on. If wrong,
they'll make sure you know you wasted
their time, should have thought

harder, like concrete, harder, diamond,
brilliance forced up from the earth
and cut, so rare to be wanted.
Who wanted us here, wanted anyone?
Where the hell else would you be?
We followed the paths deer made or took
into the grip of forests.

DIAGRAM @EL_DIAGRAM Sep 16, 2025

Excerpt of Seth Landman's "Appeal"
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This a an excerpt of a poem. The excerpt reads:

I said yes but I felt this no in me
I heard a train and it was gone
I was waiting to talk
and a voice said
are you ok
I said yes
but there was a crying buzzing
I am not I said
and I explained the train and the hills behind it
subtle nature painting everlasting love
pouring rain blurring the world
sometimes it is so clear