Noah Berlatsky

Bendis vs. Raworth Super Battle!

Costume or no costume?

Skimming over book titles.

Let me take you through security.

Mosquitoes had been real fierce.

This is America…everyone has rights.

She breathes again.

Every civilized nation is represented here today.

A burglar alarm system determines who a victim saw.

Do you know I’m your wife?

Monoliths eventually topple.

The void!

The mixture cools.

Is projecting an energy field around all of this.

Across a system of crystalline forms.

Call me a traditionalist, but I always thought that one was plenty.

She always wore fancy dress.

Height: 6’’.

Fatal secondary infections.

My sister loved you.

Large machines can dig them.

You mind telling me what this is about, soldier?

Nobody was interested.

There’s no reason for a ground assault!

Through the dark side up out of chaos.

There’s no such thing as chaos magic.

To become two separate individuals.

I trust our interview will be soon!

Each time we remember habits and seasons change their properties.

We saved the universe.

Something was lost.

Please let’s head right for the strange readings.

Unable to stop the drift of imagination.

We stop them.

He sometimes pulled at his hair.

Securing identity files now.

Intense physical conflict confuses the two areas.

Also we’ll tell you how to convince your child that he or she is not a mutant.

There must be more identities to discover and express.

It’s loading.

To the men and women who work on the police computer.

I’ll go get the mop.

They stepped into the sun.

Uh-huh.

A supercold atmosphere separates metal from its ores.

Well then I hope someone docks their ninja pay.

Cheated by false hopes.

I wanna scream.

Carefully singing magic.

And then poof.

And then more gently the door opened.

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Alternate lines from the first two omnibus volumes of Brian Benis’ The New Avengers and Tom Raworth’s Clean & Well: Selected Poems, 1987-1995