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Carthage, Rome subdued:/itself, Rome never long tamed./Memento mori.
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It was fun, until he started winning every time.
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1620109
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Cinema Verite’ is the best book of poems I have encountered since Matthea Harvey’s Modern Life
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So when they shake a finger, when they yell, she remembers Miss Whalen saying, “It’s not for keeps.”
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He is drilling the door of a safe to access the keys he locked inside.
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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!
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Half way through our cigarettes she told me her name was Charlotte.
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Sand underfoot.It's raining I say …
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I called it Nirvana and Elysium
I called it Bountiful
I called you to come forward
Without counting.
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As a boy I fished under the Tappan Zee bridge which spans the Hudson River above New York City.
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"She had been warned." (this started as a fun alien story and then took a human turn.)
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“Ol’ Betty has a nice set of headlights,” he says with a wink as he springs out of the recliner.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Millennium jumped strumming lithium gum cumulative outnumber humiliated résumé jumpy instruments
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We do not all love each other for the sake of our shared art, apparently.
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Here comes my speed dealer
he's riding shotgun in the open
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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...
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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.
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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.
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Maybe we all met, somewhere, in between streets.
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I saw a woman / at the bar tonight
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Often I eat lunch at the hospital. The cafeteria may be the best place to eat in town.
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clouds clot the horizon all day
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‘In terms of relationship, I am your Father – my name is the Emperor’.
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Come, bring your sadness
to the precipice of my body,
bury it within me like a tool
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If I could say only one thing more to Tony who died a month ago, there is one thing I could find to say
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Every day, a fresh new/
strain of Hell reveals itself
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