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October 18, 2026

Two Poems

Thomas Stern

The Daily Grind

I get rejected

By a submissive on Grindr

Then log my rejection

From Ploughshares

On the Submission Grinder

 

 

 

This Poem Is Competing In The 1948 Olympics

A futile effort

If we’re being honest

It’s eight decades late

And an aesthetic mismatch

Let’s cheer for it anyway