Better, issue four: Glenn Shaheen's POET The Game

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Help? You’ve never needed help from anybody. Your parents’ trust fund ensured that. But ok, here are some controls:

“look” — Uses your eyesight, the most important sense of all in a game where there are no pictures! Get specific by looking “at” things if you feel as though you are an expert.

“take” — Used in conjunction with an object, adds that object to your inventory.

“use” — Used in conjunction with an object, makes use of that object’s use, by using it.

“move” or “go” — Used in conjunction with a direction (east, north, etc.), moves your little feet in that direction.
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Your alarm goes off and you slowly awake. Ugh, what a cliché way to start your day! You remind yourself that you are a poet, and better than that, you are an MFA student, a member of an exclusive club of thousands of students around the country. You taste stale Pabst on your breath. Your room is dark, apart from your clock which says 3:30. Shit, that’s early. Fuck.

What do you want to do now?

Glenn Shaheen was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and currently lives in Michigan, where he is a doctoral candidate at Western Michigan University and is the poetry editor for Third Coast. His book of poems, Predatory, won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, and is available from the University of Pittsburgh Press. He is also the author of the chapbook of flash fiction, Unchecked Savagery, available from Ricochet Editions. He presently serves on the board of directors for the Radius of Arab-American Writers, Inc. Work has appeared in Ploughshares, The New Republic, Subtropics, and elsewhere.

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