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Place de la Revolution

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We are a funny story, my brother and I. Twins of Africa in a kitchen on wheels the size of a cupboard, we serve tourists baguettes and pain au chocolat, in the gardens adjoining the square where the tricoteuses did their knitting, heads were chopped and..

Missing the Bus

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Something about her eyes...

complex numbers

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c = a + ib

Cabrito

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Mariposa, the skinny hound, crawls out from under the trailer

A Knobby Thing

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She feels ugly but ready for anything.

Why Men Compete

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It starts on the Fallopian Speedway

Naming the Beauties

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the signature of God/ consigning everything/ to the saturating energies of time.

Bird-Watching

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I didn’t understand, you said with a hoot, that it was hard to get hard when my ass was soft.

Mitzvah (wc:55)

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So, how did they meet? After years and years of starvation and gruesomeness and lack of human contact because there were no humans left, only walking corpses, a woman gently lifted the sixty-pound dead man's penis with a cool washrag and wiped him clean. The dead…

The Esso Roadhouse

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The night we crossed the Madres my father stuffed his Stetson full of cash.

George

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he makes his way back / to the ocean, back to the popcorn, back / to the pinball machines

Summer Girl

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You’re bro­ken. Your eyes don’t see quite right, and your hands don’t feel quick enough. I love you any­way.

Napomo 17: April 7-12

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The drinking will continue/ until morale improves

How to Be a Conqueror

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The movies he liked best were the ones in which white people played Asian leads. Since his girlfriend had left, that Barry was adopted had seemed to become more of a fact.

RETIREMENT

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Men have a way of doing that, Lord, why? I always thought retirement means you get to sleep longer. Nope He must arise early, make breakfast, after 40 years of eating mine. Next, he insists on coming with me to the market. When I try to…

Insurgencies

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The end will film itself/ in charred, eviscerated bodies

POSEY'S POND

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She leaned up on an elbow, smirked and touched his leg. “Want to do it?”

Cry Wolf

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"You are wolves circling, eyes burning in the dark...."

Twenty.

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His face is lined, lost, resigned,

3 Among the Possibilities

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While you can,/ find the beautiful

Petty Injuries

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Fault and blame can be forgotten after three steep flights of stairs. Pregnant-lady-take-the-elevator kind of steep. I-said-elevator, holy-shit-she’s-falling kind of steep. A-faked-relief-when-the-child-is-born, but-born-special kind of steep.

Rats

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He tried to call on his break but she didn’t answer. He imagined her on the floor, sobbing, like she’d been the other day. The grey rat would have chewed through a plug-in or some wires and started a fire. She would be ashes, a blackened corpse, reeki

Yalta Pas de Deux

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The Count was used to boredom but he had reached the point where he was even bored with boredom.

Through the Looking Glass: Humpty Dumpty 2011

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“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”

Reading Rilke Aloud in an Empty House

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I arranged all my books before you came, / so that it appears I read some more than others.

The Women

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I crawl under a table in the kitchen and listen to the women talk.

Mythologies of Self

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We lie sleepless at night, enraged,/ and finger the keyboard

You are not Medusa

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A Meeting With Qaddafi

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Qaddafi's murder brought an old memory I had forgotten about.