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Shimmer

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She grinned when he steadied himself against the sofa. “Boy, I know you.”

Visiting Sally

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Buddy was in a garage band. They were pretty good. “Soul Harbor“ they called themselves.

Hart Crane Pantoum No. 1

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One must be drenched in words.

Summer recipes

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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.”

A Small Life in Slices

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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.

White Woman

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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

leave the dog, take the cannoli

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he who laughs last is probably a dumbass fuck

Beautiful Girls

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and all the beautiful girls are in the river And they went in dirty But they came out clean

Frostproof Suite: Clown Car

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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.

But It's Been a While

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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,…

Like Water

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I become a lake, a river, a stream, an ocean that will one day be able to move anything, anyone.

Begettings

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However did we make it this far/ without murdering one another as the other sleeps

Taking a Bath with my iNuke

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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.

Removals

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Her mother was worried.

Iowa Voters

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I miss my fire from the first three races

Teleprompts

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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.

I Scream

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she peeled back the white wrapper from around her ice cream sandwich slowly, methodically

Louis Belfast

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"You know, there really is a death of the heart."

Wind Drinks Time Like Wine

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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

Year End Closeout

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At some point, indifference// will swallow the small gasps./ The appalling will become the norm.

Sweet Dreams

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But tonight the circus is dark. She is free to go to her lover, to embrace, to float in the night sky.

Reincarnation for T. Waits

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Your fuckin' shoe.

Dead Girl Rolling

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They left me on a gurney for hours...

Almost

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From the way she scooped him from his buggy, shushed him, kissed his tears and hugged him...

Swicks Rule!

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She waves her hand around, says, “Pah!” and starts digging invisible things out of the potato salad with her bare hands.

No Adjectives

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She looked up, blinked. Fuck are you? I shook my head. Nobody you’ll remember, I said.

Black Orchids

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I told him he was just paying for his sins. He gave me a look. "Why me?" he asked.

Small Snow Haiku.

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A small snow.

Funny Jokes

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Why was the broom late for work?

The Greatest Narcissist on Earth

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I forgot how masterful you are, way better than a pickpocket. After our meeting, I drove home with one hand. It felt funny but I figured I'd absentmindedly put the other in my purse or tossed it into the backseat with my jacket. In my…