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Great piece and great timing!

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Dear Magician how can someone contribute with poems or writing for the contributions you seek?

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If you want to submit to Enormousface about the semiotics of garbage I believe you can email xem at garbagefestnorthwest@gmail.com. This is xeir Insta: https://www.instagram.com/enormousface/

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This is so true every day and especially timely today.

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I like this...

This Here I document my time living on the streets of wellington... off throwaways...

https://obsidianblackbird.substack.com/p/the-gutter-boss-rises-75a

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Oh yeah I read that one! As well as dumpstering I used to eat leftover meals- we called that 'seagulling'. And my friend Darcy was an expert shoplifter, hot chickens, bottles of wine. Aah the good old days

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I would try to steal expensive stuff. 80$ massive bottles of Spirulina and eat so much i pooped dark green... and bricks of high end coffee !

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Heh. When I worked on an organic blueberry orchard I'd try to eat at least a half a kilo a day. Now that was an intestinal cleanse

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Nice... I worked fruitpicking and ate so many pesticide covered unripe aples my face swelled up

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