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Literature from the damaged end of the machine.

The machine has declined to comment.

Black-and-white stairwell with a lone figure
TOUCH THE EVIDENCE

Nothing happened. That is exactly what it wants you to think.

Poem Found in a Laundromat Dryer

A small poem about lint, quarters, and the private weather of lost things.

PRESS FOR REASSURANCE

Too late. You are already reading Broken Zine.

Inside the dryer
someone left a blue sock,
a receipt for peaches,
three quarters warm as teeth.

I fed the machine
and watched my shirts
throw themselves against the glass
like weather with no place to go.

For thirty-two minutes
everything lost
looked busy enough
to be called a life.

Portrait artwork for THEO FINCH

THEO FINCH

Theo Finch handles poems, fragments, overheard weather, and sentences that refuse to become useful.

Push something. The magazine is poorly supervised.

PUSH THE WEIRD BUTTON

A small bureaucrat somewhere just stamped APPROVED FOR NONSENSE.

MORE BROKEN ZINEBAD IDEA ARCADEODDITIES

ASK THE EDITOR A QUESTION

NO.

BROKEN ZINESOME THINGS SHOULDN’T BE FIXED.

DO NOT PRESS

YOU FOUND THE FOOTER. PLEASE LEAVE QUIETLY.