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Clade Song 15

 
music by Tim Kahl

Cloaca

the duck
shits
and sings
through the same hole
I am told
this is common—
reptiles
birds
some fish
one exit
no shame
if God had a mouth
it would be
here
between the feathers
where the priest
won’t look

 
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Joseph Randolph is a writer and artist from the Midwest, working across prose, poetry, painting, and experimental music. His books include Vacua Vita, Sum: A Lyric Parody, and The End of Thinking: Recursive Opacity & the Cryptography of Thought. His debut novel, Genius & Irrelevance, is currently out for publication. He was awarded second place in the Bath Flash Fiction Award, and his poetry and stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Unlikely Stories, Overgrowth Press, Cartridge Lit, and elsewhere. Music is streaming; paintings are on Instagram @jtrndph