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A PERFORMANCE PROTOCOL
Gabriele Micozzi
PROTOCOL FOR DECLARING THE HUMAN STILL PRESENT
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About the writer:
GABRIELE MICOZZI is an Italian writer and essayist based between the Marche and Rome. His work moves through systemic horror, civic and ecological poetry, and experimental forms. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Asymptote, Strange Horizons, American Poetry Journal, Heavy Feather Review, Space and Time Magazine, The Ecological Citizen, and Ballast Journal.
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