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Todd Mercer<\/h1>\n

DEFCON 1<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u201cJesus wept,” Mom said,
\nthat prominent forehead vein flexing
\nas her offspring scattered to the four points
\nof the compass, no one lingering
\nto see the explosion, or what landed where. <\/p>\n

Todd Mercer<\/strong> coined the popular culture term \u201chigh-tracked\u201d (becoming side-tracked from one\u2019s stream of thought due to being high) and wrote a digital chapbook, <\/em>Life-wish Maintenance<\/a>, which appears at <\/em>Right Hand Pointing<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Todd Mercer DEFCON 1 \u201cJesus wept,” Mom said, that prominent forehead vein flexing as her offspring scattered to the four points of the compass, no one lingering to see the explosion, or what landed where. 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