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Eric David Helms holds degrees from Furman University and Columbia University’s School of the Arts. His first collection of work, VALLEY OF EMPTY POCKETS (published by MainStreetRag, April 2020) can be purchased via PayPal or check through the publisher’s website. Some of his uncollected work can be found in the following lit mags and ‘zines: Asheville Poetry Review, key_hole, Prelude, [Diagram](http://thediagram.com/14_3/rev

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TABULA RASA

circles & squares or perfect dots on a blank white sheet during the drought a storm cloud turned green & dropped a mean coconut killing a ken doll in the process his beautiful arms I took off & painted aqua mailed to my congressman with a manila sticky which in other languages says crawl back into your lazy fucking hole with your broken teeth plus some exposed negatives dipped in extra conditions which some embalmed genius made immune from all Cartesians & their Archimedean points but only small parts of the brain resemble a tabula rasa henceforth there is an infinite regress

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