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I loved without marriage and the men loved without divorce and we loved a twenty-four-year-old eating and how gracious she shone over a tame bottle of beer.
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Rough sonnet about faded love
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the heat and energy it takes
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it corrupts the smells//
and flavors of the world/
and plants its swollen face
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I’ve blown out my shag haircut
and it’s big.
BIG-big.
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Where we live, at the edge of the foothills at the east edge of town, fire is always a worry during the summer, and this has been an exceptionally dry year.
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I can’t take my eyes off a tall blonde with green eyes. I catch her eye.
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When I saw that Chez Panisse was serving crawdaddies (the menu called them crayfish, but I know a crawdaddy when I see it), I relaxed. I didn't eat the ugly creatures when my brother fished them out of irrigation ditches back on our farm near Roswell, and
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Sex when you’re pregnant
Is like sex when you aren’t
Pregnant, but with extra people.
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They take her cookies
they take her Coke
they take her Kleenex
the whole box
not the used ones
They take, they steal
everything
They’d take the brain
out of an ox
if they could
Diamonds they steal
bars of soap
as long as they
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She grinned when he steadied himself against the sofa. “Boy, I know you.”
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Buddy was in a garage band. They were pretty good. “Soul Harbor“ they called themselves.
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One must be drenched in words.
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Instead of julienning the fava beans you could, instead, slip your linen shirt off your pink shoulders and hang it on a tree branch like a white flag yelling “I don’t want to fight anymore, goddamit, this aftenoon is beautiful.”
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It’s Sunday- no need to shave-/
but shave, I do. A little act//
of discipline in the discipline/
of routine.
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She had a compulsion to organize things according to their size or colour or according to some other abstruse algorithm that clicked through her mind. She didn't know that this was OCD
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he who laughs last is probably a dumbass fuck
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and all the beautiful girls are in the river
And they went in dirty
But they came out clean
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My job was take the falls, act the dope, finish at the wrong end of the slap stick for the blow off. I was Auguste, the fool; I drove the clown car.
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When I first met Luther he was sitting on the sidewalk, his back pushed up against a vacant storefront wall, thumbing through the “help wanted” section of a few-days-old copy of our local paper and I was moved to offer him a couple of dollars for which he said,…
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I become a lake, a river, a stream, an ocean that will one day be able to move anything, anyone.
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However did we make it this far/
without murdering one another
as the other sleeps
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Mickey Mouse mini-nukes are often placed in children's school lunch boxes for cooling sandwiches, though an accidental meltdown could cause the food to become dangerously hot in both senses of the term.
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I miss my fire from the first three races
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In what appears to have been a coordinated, coast-to-coast attack, country clubs across America were attacked last night with firebombs and heavy contaminations of herbicides.
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she peeled back
the white wrapper
from around her
ice cream sandwich
slowly, methodically
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"You know, there really is a death of the heart."
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but let's stop and take another look at things
could it be through our closed eyes
that we didn't really know what we were talking about
that there never was a surprise
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At some point, indifference//
will swallow the small gasps./
The appalling will become the norm.
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