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Yeah, yeah, it takes two

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I'm rushing from the office, wanting to catch the 6.05, skittering down grey, commuter-laden streets, and I turn into the plaza and see the stupid fucking dancing couple. They are usually only there Fridays and weekends, catching the tourists on their way into Covent…

BLIND MAN

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fire, fire

Truth

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…assume...

How To Pound Meat

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"She has a lot of time to think these days. What else is a woman to do with the rest of her life?"

MAIZE

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Now, these explosions announced, political bribes and propaganda weren't going to be enough to push things through. There would need to be survival from blunt force trauma and fear tactics, a relentless forward march

Diagnosis

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I am studying the way/ dust bunnies emerge, grow/ and apparently reproduce.

Two Hundred Fifty

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For every person who dies alone that way, another twenty try.

An Open Letter For Zombie Rights

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We are what we are, and that is zombies.

Global Arms

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~(+)~

The Alchemist

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A new constellation in the sweet hereafter.

Transgressions

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Once you descend, the third rail/ hums its invitation

the plunge

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Bottom's up, mon cherie. On land, I'll grab mine with two hands. But in water, boy, I'm weightless and turning, a regular fish -- afloat, flopping, deboned.

Waves

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“still watersrun deep” is not my portionborn to make waves Formed from the ocean

I Am Not Like All The Rest: Funny Lines From Online Dating Profiles

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After becoming single at age 62, I joined an online dating site. After a year of perusing profiles and meeting men for coffee, staying single is starting to look better and better to me. But I've stayed on the site, in part for the pure enjoyment of…

A Measure of How Far Behind We Are + Anecdotes from Recent Rambles

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[T]he Thwaites Glacier . . . still exists as of August 2021, though probably with at least five hundred and twenty fewer gigatons of ice mass than in August 2011.

whoosh

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i learned all

This Time

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This time the mountain climber does not attain the summit.

Chocolate Diamonds

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with facets

Purple Lady, Lavender Afternoon

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—Pretty tulips, said the woman.

Safety First

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I am not a gun, but I think I may have pulled a plastic movie trigger in some kind of real world action before, accelerated, pivotal scene, one way or another before, this new frame came into its paranoid view .You see? I am not a plastic water bottle,but I…

You Couldn't Pay For a Review This Good, But I Did

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I’ve previously tried the old-fashioned route to get my books reviewed, calling up editors, asking friends who work at newspapers and magazines to put in a good word for me, stalking . . . I mean, contacting freelancers.

The Shrink

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Did they do it in pairs or all at the same time?

Three Facts

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These are the three facts of my life.

Rams, NFL's Smartest Team, Forget to Make Playoffs

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“I was looking for the review of the Alvin Ailey dance company when I noticed something in the sports pages,” says the 300-pound center. “All of a sudden it hit me–I should have been playing football."

Zeus Takes a Day Job

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That's demeaning enough, but not as hard to take as the customers. They're all jaded hipsters, thumb diddling smartphone freaks, pretending their online interactions actually count as relationships and that “tweets” are real conversations. It's sad, reall

Off the Wall

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[...] in the living room above the fire, someone had gouged a letter A on the wall.

Blue Line Southbound

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Brazilian girls yammer with their book bags up against my leg.

Lang's Dragon

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Fritz Lang. Even before I ever met the miserable son of a bitch, with his monocle and superior airs, I hated him. In person, he was an insufferable asshole.

Geek Love

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We’ve clicked/ and tapped ‘til dawn/ and our exhaustion meet,

The Monolingual’s Regret

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Polylinguists lash me with tongues I cannot conjugate