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Are you content to conduct your life/as a cliché

20 January 201022 May 2015 joannemerriam

Read “The Bistro Styx” by Rita Dove.

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The cover of scifaiku (haiku with scifi themes) magazine Scifaikuest with cover art by Richard E. Schell of a spaceship pursuing a sailing ship. The magazine is against a backdrop of pink mums.
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August 2025 print issue of Scifaikuest

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