by Sean M. Foster
Cold War in Bentonville
old sign factory
secret office
abandoned industrial area
carousel animal train
only way in, out.
Once there,
you find they’re building
troll algorithms
in trailers
for the South’s propaganda machine.
They’re building maths
for Jesus.
For Christendom.
For Creationism.
For madness.
they might be from Russia,
or working on logistics
for Walmart.
scrawled on a cinder block wall
colored red and white
like the inside of the big top
Bezmenov Lives
in Bentonville.
Low-Country Boil
red clay riverbanks
erode South Carolina
into caught crawdads
Geminis
freon drip drips cool
on twin kindergarten heads
machine tears recoil
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Sean carries mail in Fairfield, Ohio. Mostly in light, but at times, in dark. In 2022, he wrote daily. In 2023, he published some of these works alongside his art on a small substack called typaphobe. Sean lives outside Cincinnati with his wife, daughter, their boxer, and sibling cats.