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Only in America

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Mullah Omar was quoted as saying that “America will fall to the ground.” The extinction of America will come about if God is willing.

Listing

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It's so nice to be under something else's power

Petunias

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People huddle in their basements like kittens. People laugh, darkly, saying they'd rather be surfing. People wonder if their batteries are charged. People never do get what they want. People grow tired of the sad dog following them around. People want you to know how…

Wince

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Lately he's been wanting to write about love...

The Hair and The Whore

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Every time they said Gloria I turned around but of course they meant Gloria Steinem.

miranda

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When I was miranda and my mother Rose, ours was a skinless intimacy. miranda in Rose's womb, captured in an essence of love, anger, frustration, fear, the overwhelming stress of Rose's life heavy syrup that kept the bond between spirit and body weak and

April, 1956

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I felt/ no need to show what I had made/ to anybody else.

now

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koalas burning

White

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“White,” he says. -- “Black,” I answer.

The Krafft-Ebing Poems

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his dreams are filled / with aprons

Camp Atheism

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We are not alone, not as alone as we think.

What He's Poised To Do

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The man is not happy at home. When he sees his wife or his son, he knows that he should be, but he is not.

How To Love Like a Raven Loves

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ravens

Note from the wilderness

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It's a business, after all, all are quick to remind us. True dat, and the sun always rises in the east and sets in the west, and death and taxes...yup yup, we know. We get it.

Lullabies.

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Sleep shall take you where plutonium Stars the drinking pools with light.

Cornfield

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This is not a story you expect to end at Cape Horn.

Syllables of the Dead

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Nothing has changed// except the toys and fashion.

Boyfriends

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He's Eric Roberts, the stalker and eventual killer in Star '80.

Kepler On The Bus

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On the bus I sat like an ounce.

The Promise Land

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Sock me in the stomach until I forget it. Down, down, baby. Down by the roller coaster.

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She wants to be an apple on a stick, a mop and handle, a brain attached to bones.

We Don't Need No Education

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“There’s an ill energy that emanates from your precise heart that I find attractive”

The Little Room Where We'd Fit

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She asked if I needed to be measured for size “to make sure they feel really good on you,” her lips all gloss and smile. I was nineteen and knew my size but changes in weight had caused fluctuations before so maybe I'd be different…

Variation on a Variation of a Mode

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Borges must be so proud somewhere

"Leda and the Crane-Daddy" by Bobbie Ann Mason and Meg Pokrass

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Co-written with Bobbie Ann Mason

Blocked

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Poem on the Table

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Its intelligence won’t be/ diminished when you take/ a bone saw to its cranium

Jambalaya

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Your writing offended the editors greatly, and we would select certain word choices we disliked, but we truly hated every word, including mere articles, prepositions, and conjunctions.

The Bicycle

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Oh what fun they had riding that bike! What adventures! They went everywhere, in town and out.

Victory

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As soon as she left, I sat down at the computer. Booted up. Read my e-mail, then looked at pictures of bare-naked ladies.