You make a wedding gift personal, see, otherwise you go on the register. I was new to weddings, so I'd looked it up, and even NPR said don't go on the register.

There’s someone in the audience who is immolating himself Cutting his own leg over and over with a pen knife And groaning: “Oh God, oh God” And all I can think from up at the podium is This guy must absolutely hate these poems I am reading

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one season slips into another

It was always your body that told so much -- lips working some secret out

I heard that Hollywood is remaking “Thelma and Louise” with Christina Ricci and that dark haired girl who worked on a show that plays on the television. I heard it either from the internet or from a dream. I thought about looking it up, but I don't…

“Man...I...I loved them!”

Eighty years since we last leaned to the Right, we have already dug trenches in our head, built walls between skins and gods.

I wrangle word juice from the Oxford American, sighing at photographs of blues musicians with solemn lakes for eyes.

Falling// is something that comes quite naturally/ to puffed up things. Like the soufflé

on cd I make john hiatt does not smash perfectly good guitar

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The feel of the lifeguard's tongue surprised me. It was like wet leather, not smooth, and it had an unexpected stiffness to it. When Susan and I practiced we kept our tongues to ourselves. I wasn't sure if this was because to French…

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Like a blank rumor of/ice and smoke you worked on me

bassackward/in the surreal/bathroom mirror

I'm sitting here listening to Nebraska and it's / breaking my heart