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in l.a. like everyone - jacqueline brown

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I’m not even sure this place has a name


there are no transplanted palm trees or

robot bar carts roaming the streets


hello?


a chill runs straight down my spine

though the air is warm

like Los Angeles — but this isn’t


there is no one here but me

yet I still call out for 

Bill and John and Mike and Josh


a voice that is not my own

answers from somewhere in the cosmos:


No one is coming to save you.


They’ve all gone home.

They’ve all gone home.

They’ve all gone home.





Jacqueline Brown (b. 1988) is a native Chicagoan who now lives near bodies of water that, while large, are sadly not Lake Michigan. She is a Penn alumna and an enthusiastic Friend of Kelly Writers House. Her work can be found in numerous places.

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