| 1499  8  8   
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			| 1286  8  6   
 | There are stranded people just like us, that's     Not necessarily what I'm looking for.     Negativity won't pull us through the     Barbed-wire halls of hate. And even if I     Was the only one, I wouldn't want you     To look any different in the mirror. I'm older    … | 
		
		
			| 1647  8  7   
 | When the full moon changes trajectory and comes close it pushes you to different gravitational fields | 
		
		
			| 2889  8  7   
 | Because I'm old and this is the Way I Do Things now... | 
		
		
			| 1572  8  7   
 | “Susan,” he says menacingly, as if he’s a husband who’s caught a cheating wife in a discreet liaison with another man. “I thought I made myself clear about this sort of thing.” | 
		
		
			| 1761  8  5   
 | As long as he could still take the stairs, he would go down there to be with the memories that each piece held. He knew that their time was about up, because his was too. His wife had already gone, and even before that she had long stopped using the washe | 
		
		
			| 2006  8  5   
 | That  bottle just sits there in the closet, next to the hats and a box full  of old gloves. Years it’s been there. Try as we might, we never open  it. We just don’t have a damn thing to celebrate.  								Who  was it brought that bottle into our lives and went and ruined … | 
		
		
			| 1740  8  6   
 | There was something wrong with this picture.  Was he the man she had slept with last night?  | 
		
		
			| 1224  8  1   
 | Buck, naked, has no words. The best he can manage is a dopey strangulated cough. His wife, who is clothed, stands before him, next to the waterbed that took Buck half a day to force into the trailer. | 
		
		
			| 1651  8  8   
 | So she set about eliminating the problem, all the time recalling some newsmagazine program she’d seen as a child: a discussion of hantavirus, nasty and deadly and spread by mice. | 
		
		
			| 1745  8  7   
 | Once upon a time, before there was Prairie,  there was Swamp.
Therein lived Salamander and Snake. High above them, in the tops of Cypresses lived Woodpecker.
 | 
		
		
			| 1648  8  7   
 | I usually idle by Spades Check Cashing on 8th Ave. and catch folks that way. The Homestead cops, they moved stations from a little up Amity to down on 7th, which is closer to Spades, but they leave me alone. I've drove jitneys almost ten years. Only been cited twice,… | 
		
		
			| 1966  8  3   
 | For fifteen years Wendy waited for Harry to leave his wife. From time to time, there’d been ultimatums, break-ups too, but they never stuck.  Now Wendy’s luck was about to change.
It was Tuesday, Wendy and Harry’s standing night to be together. His wif | 
		
		
			| 1445  8  2   
 | The ocean smelled like decomposed plant life and clinically despicable vagina, but I still spoke of its power and my fear of it in moonlit clichés and she still listened.  | 
		
		
			| 1883  8  6   
 | in her monestary mission, with her rosary and candles, time holds me here
my feet got the travelin' blues but my hands tie old women's bones to my hair | 
		
		
			| 3603  8  4   
 | Whenever we’re carressin’,
I find you quite engrossin’,
I’m filled with vasopressin
endorphins and oxytocin. | 
		
		
			| 1762  8  7   
 | Before he was Francesco Martinelli | 
		
		
			| 144  8  5   
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			| 1426  8  8   
 | -Love is a rushing
         of blood | 
		
		
			| 1391  8  5   
 | I dreamt once
a child’s drawing of a house
all scribbly black crayon
swayback roof crooked
chimney. God, do you
remember how cold it was
that night?  | 
		
		
			| 1155  8  6   
 | It’s not that cold but the cold that is/
penetrates layered cloth and soft skin/
to chill the blood in its capillaries | 
		
		
			| 1522  8  5   
 | Those socks?  	Nope. I'd look like the joker in the commercial, the creep with the pollen issues and the triangular smile. What a genius.  	It's the part off-screen I can't forget, the part they left on the editing reel. She's crumbling the crackers into her soup, that dry… | 
		
		
			| 1363  8  3   
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			| 1322  8  8   
 | I clearly see the squirrels of 
negativity all around me 
or at least I sense that 
they are there, 
filling in the blank spaces 
as I read down the page 
prior to arriving at 
the meaning of everything. 
The greenness of figs 
before they  | 
		
		
			| 896  8  4   
 | I, like Sara, am the last of my kind still activated. I am a Machine of Loving Grace.  | 
		
		
			| 938  8  4   
 | Thankfully I don't have to share my Jim Beam with the cat.
 | 
		
		
			| 1224  8  5   
 | Perhaps my grandparents, Fred and Lela, when they were  growing up.... | 
		
		
			| 866  8  6   
 | By the time the oceans rise/
enough for Kansans to care about, | 
		
		
			| 1915  8  5   
 | I ask for your patience with this form message, as it is part of a system that ensures
every submissive ex lover is considered separately, since I am involved in a lot of anonymous sex. | 
		
		
			| 1457  8  1   
 | The thing Bentley remembered most about her was she had no body odor. None. |