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Do you see the hot coals of doing? The way time sizzles or wilts…eat those coals.
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Out in the world again, pretending to belong.
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They rise up, a sullen, sorrowful/
army of reproach, staring,//
stone-faced but eyed with fire.
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William Shakespeare (a surname that meant "wanker" back in the day, by the way)
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The Killer Whale came back and promised to be nice.
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They sat before the fire and played cribbage. He was a good player, but not as good as she was.
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Step off, dude. I have no intention of coming back to you.
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I want to tell you things you do not know.
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Years later he surveys this place again to post something, anything. He plays "sex on fire," sounds that once fueled him. Now he knows the song is about VD, not unbridled potency. Names and words all seem at once familiar and numbing and noise. He once wanted fame or…
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My dad / always had a fondness for Raleigh’s kind of loss
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n truth, they are not red/
but chestnut./
But “Chestnut Wasp” lacks menace
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For another man she raced through infinite wounds and fists in a monsoon forest. Hands tied to her lover’s for a dance, a roulette of paper cranes exploding across the sky. Cascaded into the sea of black eyelashes.
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No one knows that, while the ex-Area 51 guy delivered his rant, Art Bell left the booth for a Diet Coke.
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Frisbee dog. Stealth the cat. Read more. Cut toenails. Less wine. Bind the ties. Avoid mirrors. Divide water.
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Is it my imagination, or is her chair afraid of her?
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And soon you'll be walking
and walking
and walking
and walking
and walking
and walking
and walking
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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
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During fifth grade, I was called /
closeted queer and tall faggot.
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They say
it was like an elephant
married to a dove.
Imagine, me,
a dove!
Ridículo!
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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
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In this lab, where I work 40 hours a week,
live the ghosts of questions asked.
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There were so many suicide choices it seemed overwhelming. The chief criteria was the least pain.
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It was there, and then it wasn’t, the victim of a magician or a swooping seabird.
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Hair as black as a Raven’s wing. Dark eyes. You wore a black dress, too, my favorite color.
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I guess the ultimate, penultimate failure
would be to write a love poem that
turned on everybody but you.
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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.
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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.
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