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Toward a Critique of Everything Existing

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You got a lot of people, out there

December 1, 2016

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Polite society will cheer/ as another body is discovered// and disposed of. The cheers/ will drown out the gasps

Gassed

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Death Is No Big Deal.

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The suite of dark rooms/ extends forever./ It’s no big deal.

Raw Salt

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It was Gatlinburg in mid July

Salt Thought

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The custard of eternity is scooped into the quantum cone of knowledge and drips out the bottom one lifetime at a time.

Skyscrapers

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I love to lie when discovered. "I'm your new neighbor." "The landlord sent me." "I'm the ghost of the girl who died on the 11th floor." "I fell from the sky." I wear billowing white dresses and a wide-brimmed straw hat that throws my face into shadow. Peo

Perils of Poetry in a Pandemic

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...the bulk of poets are amateurs.

Life Apart

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Practice has perfected disengagement.

Almanac

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I said, “Marcy, Source Almanac is a guide for the Apple.”

A Question of Choice

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The contrast can be summed up in a sip.

Bad Heart

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You died from a bad heart.

LUPUS

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Unexpected Fever

Let the Others Drool

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They are all sleeping, but I know better. I will keep watch and if he comes tonight I will be alert and ready. When he arrives he'll see the slack mouths, the graceless sprawls, hear the grunts, snorts and snores of the other women and then he'll sense me. My eyes will…

Some Kind of Compass

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if we stare into the dark long enough, we see ourselves at some end or beginning –

For Rent: 116 Writers Block Avenue

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There's a special block in the city, nestled between Mutant Town and Trump Towers.

Da Capo

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Their bodies, ripe uncovered flesh, had begun to erode, the edges of their limbs and cores bitten, taken by the wind in small pieces, flaking and tearing, some parts sliding, falling away.

Rice

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We construct a paper bridge. The droid walks across it. We follow, one after another, like sentences in a story.

My Expiration Date Approaches

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the doomed, but splendid, first year GT40.

Crown-of-thorns

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It's supposed to resemble the sea bed. These fish have never seen the outside of an aquarium and even if they had, they are reef fish, they'd probably get the bends and die if they went to the bottom of the ocean where the chances of them finding a cerami

If I were dying

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The doctor told me: "You have 24 hours to live. no more, no less."

Halloween

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"For God's sake," my mother said. "There could be anthrax in the candy." My mother worried about me going out on Halloween.

War

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We borrow a flag from a neighbor. It’s sitting on top of the TV in the den. We haven’t figured out where to display it yet.

Badabing Badaboom

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Tony Soprano said, “My pal Franco is a misunderstood hopeless romantic. If you don't capiche that, I'll have a conversation with your kneecaps.”

The Boy who killed Christ

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He was on his way home from school on a dank winter afternoon when the attack came from nowhere, launched like a missile across the Gaza Strip. Suddenly he lay on his back with Jonathan Love pounding him in the face.

Gluttony

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I become the accumulation/ of appetites

The Gulf

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My 99 year old mother...

Earth's the Right Place for Love

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When he turns around she has her top off and is climbing out of her skirt. "I don't like old men that much," she says. "We don't have to talk. No one will know."

DRIP

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...you lick you ice cream, little pink tongue like a cat's, flick, flick... lick fast, girl, the heat's gonna melt it...

empty

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feeling empty as the bottom of a bottle dry as a bone in death valley alone