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1. Dear Jake,
   I accidentally erased all notes on submittable. I am submitting Rebel Rider and bio here. I hope you get them!
   Best, Alison

   Rebel Rider
   After Kim Addonizio

   I want a cheap shit car
   I want it second hand
   I don’t care if the body and doors
   are crapped up, I just want
   the engine intact
   I want to park it next to all those BMWs
   and Jags and embarrass the hell
   out of their owners
   I want to drive it through the Saks department
   store lot and rub fenders with the snooty customers
   I want to take it down to the track and soup it up
   enter it in a drag race and clock 120 miles an hour
   I want to attach tin cans to the back of it
   put Just Married streamers on it
   and take my gun-toting hustler pal for a drive
   up the steps of the Art Museum
   I want this car to cruise down the street past
   Sonny’s liquor store and past Li’s Laundry
   and past Katz’s Deli like it was the only car
   in the neighborhood
   I want to take it to the Supermarket and revel in the stares
   of the Mall rats as I load the stuff I’ve stolen
   into its trunk
   I want that cheapo car real bad
   I want it to confirm that I’m lowdown
   and dirty as the devil himself
   When I get it, I’m going to floor the gas
   and ride it for all it’s worth, gas-‘er-up
   and go cross country, backcountry, up-
   country, out-of-country, hell, it’ll be
   the car I crash and burn in.

   Alison Carb Sussman won the Abroad Writers’ Conference/Finishing Line Press Authors Poetry Contest in 2015. Her poem “Anhedonia” was a finalist in the 49th Parallel Award for Poetry in Bellingham Review’s 2016 Literary Contests. Her chapbook, “On the Edge,” a semi-finalist in Finishing Line’s New Women’s Voices Chapbook Competition 2012, was published by Finishing Line in 2013. Her poems have appeared most recently in Atlanta Review, Gargoyle, Levure litteraire, Lullwater Review, The New York Times, Rattle, and Southword. Alison was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2015. She lives and writes in New York City.

2. Dear Alison,
   Thanks for your note. I’ll make sure that Jake gets this.
   All the best,
   Elizabeth McKenzie

3. Thank you Elizabeth!
   Best,
   Alison