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Destroy All Monsters!

Kyle Hemmings

Dead girl’s world is post-apocalyptical, in the shape of a syringe labeled Ennui. When the pretty boys call, all Botox & helium-high, she says wrong number or can you take a hint straight up. They laugh until they die. For them, sex is about body counts. One day, the color of plutonium hearts, of nuclear wastelands post-flesh, a mechanical boy saves her from an E-longated form of suicide: hanging upside down from bare trees. Or hanging in wind-warped trees now the shape of ears. Perhaps by Dali. Mechanical boy & Dead girl sit in the ear that can still hear them. He has a sponge heart & a voice like Raymond Burr missing his cues from Godzilla out-takes. She’s beginning to fall for him, stiff-curl lip & eyes of lives-in-holes. She suspects that like her, he’s hard-wired to fail. When she begins to undo his nested codes, he says Do you know the world will end in ten minutes? It doesn’t matter, she says, the world has already ended. Anything after is just surplus goo. But can you feel? she asks. Can you feel anything? Just as he’s saying something about the large shadow over the city at night, about something stronger than the ocean surrounding Okinawa, how his brain is made from the leftover thoughts of ten unarmed geeks—the ear detonates. There are no more fake trees. Only purple hearts on mute.

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