The Velveteen Raccoon

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June 2025

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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Chad Andrew Dryden
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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Chad Andrew Dryden
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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May 2025

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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poem 020: heartland rock
running these streets my coarse heart beats like seger’s hollywood nights that two-lane rhythm cigarettes and denim that might-take-flight blacktop…
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poem 019: darkness
sundown demons chaos beyond control last breath instant death old white vitriol darkness yes but here in this room there are shades to draw down…
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poem 018: please
action etiquette an expression of disbelief but to you from me tonight it’s a pleaThe Velveteen Raccoon is a reader-supported publication.
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poem 017
get out break away bend toward the sun get bent out of shape break out of your shell hell smash your shell crane your neck to hell with heaven or…
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April 2025

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