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Literature from the damaged end of the machine.

The machine has declined to comment.

Warm colorful street scene with a person walking past motorcycles
TOUCH THE EVIDENCE

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

Poem for the Sock That Came Back Alone

A domestic elegy in one laundry cycle.

PRESS FOR REASSURANCE

Too late. You are already reading Broken Zine.

You entered
as a pair.

I know this
because I bought you
that way.

Now one of you
lies warm
in the plastic basket

while the other
has joined
whatever country

takes buttons,
earrings,
and good pens.

I fold you
without your twin.

Some losses
are too small
for anyone else.

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.