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To Do Reminders

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Frisbee dog. Stealth the cat. Read more. Cut toenails. Less wine. Bind the ties. Avoid mirrors. Divide water.

Precisely

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Is it my imagination, or is her chair afraid of her?

One Foot in front of the Other

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And soon you'll be walking and walking and walking and walking and walking and walking and walking

His Master's Voice

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InfiniDate

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He envisioned sinking his hands through his fat and pulling out the young, sinewy, long-haired Brendan Yin, the man Evelyn fell in love with. The blubbery shell would fall away to the floor, like a greasy banana peel, and the real Brendan Yin would be lo

I Confess to God in the Shower

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During fifth grade, I was called / closeted queer and tall faggot.

Owed to the IRS

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Sleep is a steep comfort these stock-still nights - the ceiling an artexed breadth of angst, the blue power light of the laptop in the corner exhorting me to turn it on

The Fat Man's Third Wife

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They say it was like an elephant married to a dove. Imagine, me, a dove! Ridículo!

The Infinte Wheel

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Scientists have discovered what I already did once on dope way back in the Sixties. There are so many other earths out there that they are almost infinite. Now in our other lives we have to shuttle from planet to planet reading our poems. And

The Ghosts of History

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In this lab, where I work 40 hours a week, live the ghosts of questions asked.

Marmalade

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A man, Athens, April.

Suicidal Thoughts

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There were so many suicide choices it seemed overwhelming. The chief criteria was the least pain.

BOLO: Alfred Chester's Wig

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It was there, and then it wasn’t, the victim of a magician or a swooping seabird.

Black Widow

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Hair as black as a Raven’s wing. Dark eyes. You wore a black dress, too, my favorite color.

Why Can’t God Send Us Some New Kind of Animal?

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I guess the ultimate, penultimate failure would be to write a love poem that turned on everybody but you.

After getting sober through a bout of Bukowski

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Dig

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Every morning, the children dig holes for their parents. This is both necessary and beneficial: the kids need to dig and the parents have to be buried.

Capture This Thing

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Take it from inside you and draw it out. Do it before it decides you are not what you seem to be and, as a result, holds you up by the thumbs.

Do I hear Ten Thousand?

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I cannot begin to list all the ways this conversation can go downhill from here, so I hang up the phone quietly.

SERVICE

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a girl with wolves, dogs and a bear

My Life on Discord

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I’m on Discord but I don’t know how to do anything.

No Pretty Boy

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Janice liked me being in the closet while she brought dudes home from the Mack. We both liked it, but sometimes, sitting on that folding chair for that twenty minutes among her clothes, all perfume-stanky and leather-smell, it felt like the whole world wa

Mirage

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the old once new me

The Death App

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The phone owner pre-writes his or her dying words! The app stores them and releases them at the moment of his death!

Senior Center

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Some of the elderly men and women are coming forward....

G.

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The stand is designed to clasp two guitars, one on either side. She cradles an Ovation in her arms, a guitar variety our high school friends used to call a soup bowl. In the stand is an acoustic-electric hybrid that I toyed with for ten…

The oranges are dreaming

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The oranges are dreaming that they have turned to apples.

Life on TV

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The television volume softens in the shadows.

Crash

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My God. It never ends

Beatles On Broadway

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-Another time maybe?