The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

The Upper Midwest's third-largest compendium of the outer spatters of the emotional palette. Our mission is to harpoon, bag and tag wild sorrows, then release them back into the subconscious.

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JOHN KOENIG is a freelance creative serf based in St. Paul, Minnesota where he attended Macalester College in the early part of the century. He enjoys piano jazz, deep image poetry, sauvignon blanc, canyons and nostalgia.

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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

karmapol

n. the imaginary committee of elders that keeps a running log of your mistakes, steadily building their case that you’re secretly a fraud, a coward, a doofus and a douche, and who would’ve successfully revoked your good fortune years ago had they not been hampered by bitter squabblings over grammar and spelling.

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