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It's Tough

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got the space heater going in the desert got a lot of space out there somewhere

Awash

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Nobody has been able to use the washer and dryer for over a month now. Our neighbors have gone laundry crazy. They've become suds-a-holics. They wash everything. If it isn't nailed down, they wash it. Outboard engines, peculiar feelings, dominatrix boots, metaphors,…

Layover Memories

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It was a pleasant time, my thoughts were mostly good ones, with little effort wasted on regret.

Car Alarm

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That’s the body for you.

Low-Country Squirrel

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Maddy knew how to make a sauce. It embraced the meat in a thick, buttery ooze.

The Undertakers of the Dead by Unseen Hands(Young Poet at the Bus Stop with Some new Vinyl in his Hand)

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"The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.'--Nadine Gordimer Other things do matter just as much of course. Of course they do. Hey I'm still kind of alive inside this poem here. At least I'd like to think so, so yes another…

Secret Lives of Cell Phones

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...collapse of the human world. Go, cell phones!

Mother Died Tomorrow

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memories that no longer make sense

Peace in the Backyard

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No lies in the sky

Model T Ford

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It lies in rusting riot of shadowed days. Flying high its emblem wings, forever stalled.

Young fool

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my lawn, get off of it

Two Little Fictions

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His work was done. For sixty years, beginning soon after his seventeenth birthday, he had listened to the gods- good, bad, somewhere in between-

Past Imperfect, Future Imperfect

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A proper study of human history should lead the student to an inescapable desire to commit suicide

Fear Us, Oh Yes.

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Start now. Make lists. Call long-lost friends. Say what needs saying. Raise hell.

Drunk Sonnet (for Meg Tuite)

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perjured like a fickle impulse

All the Broken People

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We all// fall short and fail.

Old men, old dogs

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old men with crispy sunburnt ears

At the Bar

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On the Nightly News a pedophile in an orange jumpsuit does a sashay of shame in front of a wolf pack of cameras and satellite feeds that surround the downtown courthouse. At the bar, a woman with big blonde hair and a rhinestone manicure says off with his head. A…

Derivative

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It’s not the money. The money’s/ just a way of keeping score.

The First Day

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One sentence

Appointment

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He stared at the mirror, his hair looked chewed up–severed by a miniature lawnmower.

Two Summer Poems When I Wanted Three

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That summer...

Now and Then

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We wore cowboy hats and jeans in the pictures. They both came off once his camera disappeared.

Endurance Capital

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Liz@Phil

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Liz didn’t steal his heart / she embezzled it

5 Star Ratings.

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But THIS is what happens when you collect genuine reviews. I began with a list of 50 of the greatest books of all time, according to the compiler of the list, and then went to a list of some of the worst best sellers in recent history, [scroll down] and t

Secrets

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The one he liked best was a middle aged woman who didn't wear underwear. She had a terrific figure.

My Wife

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My wife thinks I should be committed.

The Writer as Rapist

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She's at an artist colony in the state of Virginia. She's in her studio. She should be writing. That's what everybody thinks she's doing out here. Why else would she be in her studio alone at 3:00 a.m.? But there's an interloper. A new painter? Sculptor? Maybe he…

Brick Walls

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A flash in seven chapters.