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Carnage #1 (2023)

THE ABSOLUTE BEEF BETWEEN FLASH AND JOHNNY. It was instantaneous. They saw each other and immediately threw hands. Over Spider-Man.

"sometimes, i thought my father was a God. i loved him that much."

— Leila Chattis, "Muslim Girlhood"

with cracks in the walls leaky pipes and mold in the bathtub red wine stains on a discolored carpet when light shines through my broken windows you can see all the dust floating like bad thoughts

i am a house

with hidden rooms but no keys a yard of overgrown grass and weeds scattered with toys abandoned like lost memories

i am a house

with peeling paint creaking stairs and doors that jam i’m either too hot or too cold and i’ll never warn you of which one i’ll be

but that does not give you the right to tear me down just because you want something better

on a father's rage