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This is where he died, she says to me, and points to the damp pavement. Her hair is wet, and slicked against her neck. The humidity is making everything engulf her. The sleep shorts I bought her last July are loose on her now, but between the rain and
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It’s just that—well, I don’t know how to put this—
With a Dadaist poet a non-affair is the height of erotic bliss.
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My natural blonde hair is no longer sultry. Instead of a Dietrich look, I now assume a dead on impression of Bette Davis in "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane" some mornings.
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I didn’t question any of it and instead sat motionless as she dropped my wrists and walked away seconds later.
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After oh so many hours
the eyes could only close
only to view a Ritz cracker
marching on a nose
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Out the window we could see the parking lot and, across the street, the Bijou Moonlight Laundromat.
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She doesn't think about bad things anymore. She used to worry about nukes. She'd imagine Hiroshimas everywhere. She'd imagine the seas rising, the planet a string of deserts, polar bears drowning, butterflies shriveling. The world…
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They clog the skimmer basket/
and fill the small Polaris bag.
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The calculation was precise.
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Winter offers pitting salty sand clouds
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A child in a new world/
by way of the old I won’t remember.
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...filled with the wildness, the inner sensibility of brilliance.
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At some point we all reach the end point/
of something. Something important/
if only to our fragile self esteem.
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Sometimes you've just got to dance to Be heard. You have got to sing out loud To be understood. Other times No matter what you splash 'n' paint on 'em The beauty goes on shamelessly Not arousing any type of newfound Curiosity. We're…
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Pale like a tracing of a memory
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the little white lights i see
mean many different things to me
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Don't forget to fuck me. Blow me. Suck me. Don't forget to fuck me. [REPEAT 2X]
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the only thing that impresses me now
is the state of my inebriation
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I could tell you right nowwhat I'm thinking aboutbut that would not be sacrificeenough. Takes all kinds, and youonly listen when it'ssomething you think is instantlyoverpowering. I swear, there's always something not quiteright with you. There's a silly left…
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“What are you doing after this?” I asked, faking a self confidence I didn’t truly posses at fifteen. I didn’t seem to realize that I wasn’t old enough for any of the clubs they’d go to. I’d heard that fans sometimes followed the band to an after-party.
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the sound of ashes/ being poured in the kitchen
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Suddenly something clicked.
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“Hey, Buddy,” he says finally, “you were supposed to make a right back there”, and I can see his eyes flash as he reads my ID card on the dash...
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...Father is with her, face stinking with cheer...
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It would wander the hallways after the 3:45 bell, after the last class, after the students had all disappeared with the homework they'd never finish, the papers they'd forget to write, after Nate the janitor pushed his broom through the endless doorways,
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He bites and imagines, numbed by want.
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...this dim and empty room, and behind a wall of glass a flag materialized, backlit and fluttering, and I am not saying what country's flag it was, just that it was a flag, that awesome symbol of the nation state and fervid jingoism...
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They knew every word.
They knew EVERY word!
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