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whistle stop

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good bye suckers

Haikus for Miss Winehouse

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Drag queens weep sequins

Clab's Craws

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I realized something must be terribly wrong.

Anti

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“What do you call this place?” I didn't really want to talk much in there. For some reason, talking felt too—linear. The words seemed to have a kind of reverberation into associations that seemed somewhat meaningless at the time.”

A Brief History of The Real

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A little contempuous aside by the critical theorist guy, Frederick Jameson-- that it was logically absurd to call anything that human beings do, produce or effect “unnatural,”-- has brought forth the following. We are…

Precatio contra violo

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The drip of rank meat, his muzzle, his back-barbed tongue: red.

Glad the Moon Worked the Night Shift

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When we were seventeen, after her dad, the preacher, finished his Sunday night church services that required our mandatory attendance, we'd walk to my car in the pasture-turned parking lot holding hands and stop at the passenger-side car door to kiss deeply, get…

Гумилёв и Ахматова via странников

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Walking down an unfamiliar street, / I heard a sudden caw of crows, / some thunder afar, strums of a lute— / a streetcar came flying along.

Asshole

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This guy struts and never walks, and while doing so he reads and sends text messages and emails from his smart phone and so never walks in a straight line.

Fear in a Handful of Dust

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I fear my personal information travels the World Wide Web/ and mad Ukrainians will steal my name and wealth./ I fear the fiscal cliff and raising the ceiling on national debt./ I fear a death by taxes.

Mama

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So, I rough her up with sand paper, and hit her with chains, making dents. She examines her surfaces, tidily and efficiently, indicating the spots most in need of filling in with scratches and scrapes.

One Bag of Popcorn

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“Dad’s a dick,” my sister said. I nodded. He threw $20 on the candy counter for one small bag of popcorn and told the girl to keep the change.

The Faceless Girl Tells Stories

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spreading gilded pages with a tlickt

When I Met Ian Curtis

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Okay, no freaking out. I mean, this isn't a suicide note. This is suicide fiction.

Still Single

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“Yes, Mother, of course I’m still single. No, I haven’t joined the Army. No, I’m not moving back home.”

When To Wear Mascara

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it's time for the cold, antiseptic cloth to briskly remove the evidence.

It's Next Door

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The old lady from next door had been really quiet for the last few days.

and Henry Rollins as Lydia Grant

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At this stage of the game you don't even matter enough to have an asshole.

Cat Woman Sexy #9

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He kept saying how my old scars excited him to new truths

Believing Everything I Read In Your Upturned Eyes

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It doesn't have to be force grown betweenus. We entwine naturally. It's agood feeling to have a friend who at oncedoesn't require a hothouse ceiling laidbetween each invisible touch. There's justwind. There's just rain. There's just sun. There's just you.There's just…

Assiduity Eleven

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Uzma accepts my invitation for dinner.

A Little Peace

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One night we were invited out for dinner, and we got into a knock-down, drag-out that afternoon. My wife got so angry I had to hold her down on the bed.

Springtime

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Bert also said that somebody else at the meeting was complaining about his high blood pressure, and Bert repeated what Hank had said, that he was glad to have any blood pressure at all.

Appearance

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After you lost sight in your left eye, mom made me go on the road with you that last summer to help you see.

Going Home: 1937

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yeah time travel

Tatters

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They sat on the couch, and he tried to unbutton her buttons, but she fended him off.

Cento (Christian Morals)

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Be not a Hercules furens abroad, and a Poltroon within thyself

February: Letter From a Friend After Fifteen Years

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And she finds calm in the word “Easter,” thinking about chocolate and, for some reason, our dog Panda. I think of you tonight, Linda...

Witness

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Someone must bear witness// at a comfortable remove.

Man In Hiding

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I answered with my usual economy of words. If someone wants more, they must ask, and he did.