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poets can kill, or at least they once could:/
perhaps poems tamed us, if they are any good.
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my hands splash in to
silver and suds
in attempts to rinse
blues caked in grease
away for a while
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I tell my doc I’m special, 1 in 1,000,000 special: unhitched, pushing 44, and knocked up. "Call Guinness," I joke, and fake jab his right arm. He puts his two hands over mine, smiles gently, like a father.
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Rarely is Quay Street so clean,
Monday in rain,
Neactain’s ticking over with
Slow jazz and crosswords,
Stout and steaming anoraks.
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I won’t be eating much anyway if someone doesn’t start reading me. I’ve got to get a hook so people will be drawn to my work. I’ve got a few concepts I’d like to share with you. See what you think.
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She asks me what she should do, and I say I don't know because I'm no good at handling fragile things. She says, let's talk about you. I say I can't - phone signal, you know. She calls me anyway, twice, then leaves a message saying that she just wanted to
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ill kept secrets for sun and dance, sun and moon-shaped universes in the sky.
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He knows I talk to angels, what he would call angels. I don’t talk to him.
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In my dreams, I watch a sand shark sleep / on a coral bed
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It performs the dialectic that intertwines real and ideal through her mounting concern about being choked to death then eaten by a very large pig.
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I take her to the zoo, and the tigers get out. The little tigers, I mean. Cubs. Two of them.
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Chuck woke when he smelled cooking.
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In my choppings, I come across a tiny carrot amidst the baby carrots. The runt if you will.
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the Way that can be mapped leads nowhere.
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Control and decorum. Manners. Practice such to protect yourself and others.
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On a Saturday I flew from murky air. My wings grown weak, I stole away from plundered nest, casual stings, and skillful barbs. In family's fold, I perch.
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... black holes suck in matter and supernovas explode.
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Once upon a time there was a Vietnamese restaurant. And then there were two, and four, and eight...
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there was no mess she couldn’t manage, / no chaos she couldn’t tame.
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You wanted transcendence, wanted height, danger, the tracks blurred into murky distances behind and in front of you. You slipped, reached for it, starlight shining in your eyes, something you didn't have when I held your hand. We didn't fold the…
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They make you work
For your pizza in Italy
You have to slice it yourself
While wearing a gas mask
To ward off the cigarette smoke
From every neighboring table
While chasing away the
Mosquitos and the pigeons
The flies and the gypsy r
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We didn't know him from Adam...
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His will is whole, inviolate,
and wholly full of possibility.
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Although I'm twenty years older than her, my girlfriend has called me "jailbait" for the past year and a half because she says the only way to stop having to share me is to kill my wife..
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People usually take fonts for granted.
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I'm cool. You're not. Attitude is everything in life.
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Dark, green grass covered the pasture like millions of tiny fingers swaying in the heat.
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I recalled the one night stand I'd had with the girl one balmy summer night in Minneapolis. We lay on my bed in the moonlight, and I touched the nipples of her tiny breasts with the thumb and pinkie of one hand.
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