The Velveteen Raccoon

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poem 027: a café post, duty-free smokes, pour all the wine down my throat
paris please ruin me truth is you will save meThe Velveteen Raccoon is a reader-supported publication.
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Chad Andrew Dryden
poem 026: nostalgia crescent
the kids leave the fire and i sneak outside to hold time with the midnight embers wooed by the moon and that sleepover feeling a sliver of youth i can…
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poem 025: discount bin debauchery
i’m the sad 7-eleven on the asshole edge of the nice side of town a late night cheap bright light den of bad decisions ready to serve you suburban…
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poem 024: unmoored
my bloodletting victoria i want to feel unpitiful but you are irresistible a summer dress beautiful mess i’m sending out an sosThe Velveteen Raccoon is…
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poem 023: montmartre the blood red wine of it
you half dark abstract art your gypsy soul your django tango my heart’s arpeggio drunk on your divinity your cathedral calla lily kaleidoscope…
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poem 022: come on baby let’s go downtown
let’s find a bar forget we’re old hijack the jukebox trade secrets untold quarter after quarter we should play another and another and another dirty…
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poem 021: moonlit breeze, thin summer sheets, victoria slow and sweet
and here i thought the lovers and scholars already had this inquiry covered but after all these hovering hours look at what you and i have discoveredThe…
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The Velveteen Raccoon
The Velveteen Raccoon
The Velveteen Raccoon is a Substack written by Chad Andrew Dryden. Current projects include a weekly poetry series and his perpetual devotion to the nonfiction personal essay.
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