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Sing for Me

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I am beginning to worry. There is something that they are not telling me. I am afraid that something bad is going to happen.

The Mermaid's Revenge

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Lapping salt beads from/ my crackling, ecstatic lips.

horrible haiku

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Carthage, Rome subdued:/itself, Rome never long tamed./Memento mori.

Scrabbled Sensitivities

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It was fun, until he started winning every time.

Book Review: Cinema Verite’ a book of poems by Sam Rasnake

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Cinema Verite’ is the best book of poems I have encountered since Matthea Harvey’s Modern Life

But Not For Me

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So when they shake a finger, when they yell, she remembers Miss Whalen saying, “It’s not for keeps.”

Safe

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He is drilling the door of a safe to access the keys he locked inside.

December 1999

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... and you can’t balance your checkbook or divide a three-way bill in a restaurant but you can still recite all the sixteen ways of SHAUN CASSIDY TELLS: 16 WAYS TO TURN ME ON!

Charlotte

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Half way through our cigarettes she told me her name was Charlotte.

Tastes like Wind

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Sand underfoot.It's raining I say …

Perspicacity.

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I called it Nirvana and Elysium I called it Bountiful I called you to come forward Without counting.

Biodegradability

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As a boy I fished under the Tappan Zee bridge which spans the Hudson River above New York City.

5000 years

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"She had been warned." (this started as a fun alien story and then took a human turn.)

At Night in the Field

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“Ol’ Betty has a nice set of headlights,” he says with a wink as he springs out of the recliner.

No Dirt In Common

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I feel a strange loneliness for her...I think I will go to the beach, and forgive it for its sharp sand and lack of trees.

Don't move

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The tech turns off the music. The capsule blares. I am in Jurassic Park with Sam Neill. I am Timmy, descending the electrified fence, almost toast. I am Karen Silkwood, a deer in the headlights, then showering off plutonium. A garbage truck is compacting

The Laughing Grave

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Newhouse returned his gaze to his wet palm, which he lifted to his nose with suspicion, sniffed again and again, then struggled to move out from under the growing stream.

Zum is one instance of "um" herein

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Millennium jumped strumming lithium gum cumulative outnumber humiliated résumé jumpy instruments

With Respect to a Fellow Poet

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We do not all love each other for the sake of our shared art, apparently.

Thumbing For a Ride

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Here comes my speed dealer he's riding shotgun in the open

How I Left Onandaga County

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So, like I said. Da. I have dealt with the men, when I was a lap dancer. The men they need the….manipulations. I have good hands. They want me to see them naked, their power. Here it is only the women. The massage, the facial, the waxing...

Camp #7

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One afternoon the kids from next door come over. Marion is our age, Jimmy a year younger. Marion's pretty. I can't even look at her.

Falcon Street

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Marcy is two years older and got her period the summer before me. She thinks she’s a professor of everything, but she’s my best friend so I don’t say she’s being stupid or that her tangerine lipstick is smeared across her front teeth.

City Crossing

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Maybe we all met, somewhere, in between streets.

Woman at the Bar

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I saw a woman / at the bar tonight

Best Place To Eat in Town

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Often I eat lunch at the hospital. The cafeteria may be the best place to eat in town.

Summer's smack

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clouds clot the horizon all day

marc bolan

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marc bolan mind rolling

The Night We Saw Shehenshah

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‘In terms of relationship, I am your Father – my name is the Emperor’.

Poem to My New Lover, All for Free

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Come, bring your sadness to the precipice of my body, bury it within me like a tool