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Panic at the Dime Store
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.15 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Panic at the Dime Store, Samuel Ludke plunges the reader into the chaotic undercurrents of modern life, where the mundane and the extraordinary collide in an unflinching exploration of anxiety, memory, and fleeting moments of clarity. Set against the backdrop of a worn-down dime store-its aisles stocked with forgotten dreams and expired promises-Ludke crafts a landscape of existential dread and quiet revelations.
Each poem is a snapshot of the human condition: fragmented, raw, and fiercely alive. The poems speak to the tension between the familiar and the surreal, capturing the pulse of a world on the edge of something-whether it's hope, destruction, or the everyday epiphanies that slip by unnoticed. Through sharp, often haunting imagery, Ludke interrogates the flickering line between comfort and catastrophe, finding beauty in the broken and the overlooked.
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