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Job Needed

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I have enjoyed three paid teaching days in Minnesota, since my return in 1996. All three paid days were fielded through S.A.S.E., all three at Patrick Henry. I loved it there. I hope never to become certified to teach.

The Magic of the Old Man

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As far as I knew it was just an old man and his wife who lived in this house, but not really. I mean if you had seen what every person on that block had, you would have realized that many lived there, well many beings.

Molotov Cocktail Poems

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The new theaters require C-4 poems

All Fall Down

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He just up and dropped dead one day, Charles said. Pretty tough on Karen, I opined. Charles looked the other way.

Guinness for Iron

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My sister / craves raisons

Happy Trails

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"But is it politically correct?" he asked. "Oh, yes," said Hank. "It's all the rage."

Getting to Work

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And I don't know how long it will be until she comes outside and figures it all out. Figures me out.

We of the Paper-doll Brigade Are Not Hiding Our True Selves Anymore, A FaceBook Flash

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I am confused by your new paper-doll look, btw. Could you please look regular again by Thursday?

Some Pianos

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We bought a grand piano at Steinway Hall after 9/11, chased uptown by the dust of death and awakening from dreams of miniature jumpers stuck in the icing of white wedding cakes

Your Depression On Replay

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I offer you a peanut butter sandwich full of unconditional love and you say I'm being controlling, so I let you eat cake, eat cake.

The Last 3,600 Seconds

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I can feel everything getting closer, the past catching up. All the cunts and cocks and clits I've ever touched. I left them all on the other side of the world, and now they're creeping back to me.

Salon du Monde

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I sit there reading a magazine while the woman clips my claws. From time to time I watch Kim’s face.

Gabriel has lost his horn

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Warning: Mud Makes Me Horny

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One day I was sucking down the HG French Vanilla, and the next day my body plugged itself into some universal energy grid. Like some unseen force had snuck into my body and somehow a biological experiment had gone terribly wrong. The unintended result was

Where They Have to Take You In

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Sunday morning beginning with a bang. Accused, found wanting, sentenced.

Shut Up and Dance or "Greensleeves", In Its Way, Was Once a Pop Song

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The catchy tune and cloying lyrics/ nonetheless etch their patterns

When Spectacle Replaces Ritual,

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The aisle, nave and/ transept twist themselves/ into an auditorium.

Scent of danger

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Sitting in the SUV awaiting the trooper behind us I felt a warning tingle.

Testosterone

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"All he wants to do is watch the Hallmark Channel"

Marion and Carolee

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I never took more than a few pills at a time, just enough for a treat on Friday night.

Having brunch with my friends

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I ordered biscuits and gravy at the Sunset Grill, Just before the Amber Alert

Her Dream Princes

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They live a simple life..two solitudes by lamplight.

Flaming Beauty

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Okay, it was a long shot but who in that room wasn’t desperate to shift that shit? All our jobs depended on it.

WHITE

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I reached for that hair and the air zagged white...

Security Notes to the Museum of Winter

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Behind the wainscoting, the mice scratch, struggling to keep warm.

Robin Eggs

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"The sheriff's mother-in-law made the smoothest 'shine in the county."

Fifty Bucks, More or Less by

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eve

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she lays there wrapped in his baseball sheets

Perfect Lady

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The Tea Party member was married but cuter. He worked as a caulker, a tub and basin man.

Flush

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"Nice one, sir," the toilet said.