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I like that the night Ozzy Osborne died someone spraypainted “OZZY” on the construction equipment on the highway near me. And then for the next few days, people left little flowers and decorations next to the guardrail where they found his name. It was an early winter and there was a tree in our neighborhood with red leaves dropping on the snow like postcards so full of color no one could read them.

  • Bill Neumire’s first poetry collection, Estrus, was a semi-finalist for the 42 Miles Press Award, and his second book, #TheNewCrusades, was a finalist for the Barrow Street Prize. His poems have appeared in Harvard Review Online, Beloit Poetry Journal, and West Branch. In addition to writing, he also served as an assistant editor for the literary magazine Verdad and as a reviewer for Vallum.

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