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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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One sentence

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

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.

A Brief Meditation on Smoking

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There are two kinds of stupid in the world of smoking. The first kind includes anyone who smokes – knowing well that it is likely to cause terrible pain at a later point in their lives. The second kind includes the people who tell the first kind that sm

Apartments

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. . . there is nothing so selfish as sleep.

Galactic Butterflies

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will we become artifacts?

Bone Density

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Madame Fauve, / with a twisted braid, is dancing.

A grocery list found in a pocket at the end of another story

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Thornapples will make you dream things that never were.

Our Story in Ten Photographs

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1. The ghost that photographs my wife and me has a peculiar sense of lighting. In this one, we are sitting at the kitchen table of our old apartment. The table is made of glass. There is nothing on the table except our elbows. She has lowered her head between her…

Regarding Viet Nam

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At some point, my lottery number/ was in the mid 300s. I was safe/ for whatever reason. No need/ to burn my draft card.