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Cold

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I told her I didn't love her. She said love wasn't important; she wanted to marry a man she could respect.

Give Back the Moon

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to us! Without it we are less than human and cannot guarantee your safe passage through our woods any more. Give us back the moon. It is the primary element in the makeup of our deepest breaths taken to invoke all cycles to continue. It contains…

(give me a real moment with a living god and I’ll go all the way)

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I remember, when I was selling real estate, how you could always tell when there'd been a divorce. One room was conspicuously left emptied of its contents, and these rooms were never swept or tidied. Instead they were left just as they were when the par

Zaire

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The dictator, what'sisface, was crazy nuts.

The Duck Dynasty Dog Ate My Bus Pass

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Things have changed since they strutted the gritty streets of the Lower East Side with Blondie and the gang.

The Forefinger of Lenin

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Who puts Vaseline on the forefinger of Lenin? I want to know

Cracked Heart Reigns in My Eyes

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Rainy eyes fall fast somewhere close to me Riding the wind like lust

The Exhaustion of Dreams

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I like it best when I wake up And the wild rain of dreaming ends.

Hunters

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At fifteen...

A Place in the Sun

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What grabbed the mind when you heard about it was the way he did it.

Home in Biloxi

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Her father stuffed years worth of stories into the phone, a sort of begging: how the new dog rode in the golf cart and retrieved lost Pinnacles; how the garage’s rent was too expensive; how the doctor gave him new pills and how he had lost weight and cu

The Next Happy Act

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We used to smile when we saw the other smile. We used to laugh just at the sound of our laughter.

It's really not the same

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It wasn't the same as taking a course with Ginsberg. Everyone knew Ginsberg. Nick Cave, too, everyone knew him. Waiting lists were full months in advance for those classes, everyone sent in resumes and writing samples, praying, begging to be included. Lish was just an…

Pewter Badge

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I never killed a cop before.

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