[TURN-ONS: willingness. TURN-OFFS: rejection.]

She caretakes, he takes care

of any cautionary tale is somewhere found rolling around in your own sweet voice for me. Your sound's still listing there inside my wobbly head. My head is too often in my open hands, grinning behind its face-mask like a parade on…

Long, elegant, with a touch of arch,

Somebody needs to call Frank. The pediatrician who fixes cars on the side.

It is not unusual for farmers to see the future before it’s begun—but I am not speaking here only of the need to hope but more. . . .

I pass the Grief Benches on my way to work. No one is on them today. Last night I saw a couple there, him wet eyed and her with her head down. She scrunched her eyes tight as I passed and I remember thinking she was a fraud. It's alright if you don't want

You're on the Ferris wheel, and the wind is blowing just a little bit, and the sky is invisible behind a wash of white clouds, and your little yellow box tips when you look down, down to the fairway swinging. In the boxes below grandmothers are shrieking …

...

"Take a chance, Bill," she said, "Like Eddie across the hall did. Tess told me he marched right into his boss and demanded a raise. He pointed out how much they needed him and they gave him twenty-five dollars more a week.

They were obviously having some secret beach affair.

When it rains, I can really think.

My skin tells a story of pain and labor. It’s better than a tattoo and cheaper.

poem?

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