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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…

THE SHIFT

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"leaves &damage, &shifts of shape"

The Time Broker

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When I finally met the time broker, he sat at an antiquated mahogany desk with no computer. He looked up and waited for me to speak. "Time for sale," his ad had advertised, and I was ready to pay

Surprise

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a shy girl

Pink

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Together / they peeled and fed each other pink fruit, / ordered expensive pink beef, went on / vacations and viewed pink sunsets / on paradise beaches.

The Eyes of the Inmate

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The courts had scheduled the date long ago but the time, an hour always left to the warden, had yet to be decided.

Written Six Weeks Before

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March 16, 2006 My mail, e-mail, and phone calls go from the ridiculous to the sublime. Apologies for the cliché, but I can't resist its perfect applicability: In my mailbox today yet another catalogue of boob jobs in bikinis and an invitation to explore…

Modest Proposal

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It could be fun,/ with the guns, explosives, Molotov/ Cocktails and all,

Hawk

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Squirrels and mice fear her shadow

Waiting for the Voice on the Line

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hoping for a happy outcome/ like a kindly voice on the line

October

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For a few/ vivid weeks, deciduous shrubs and trees/ will seem to glow like flames and embers

Outside Starbuck’s on the Way to Work

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I always step around his mess...

Live Sacrifice

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I don’t name the dog but the fish requires a name. Animals that do not get eaten must be named. The dog is still on the menu.

The Girl in the Storm

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There once was a girl who was lost in a storm. She wandered this way and that, this way and that, trying to find a way home. But the sky was too dark, and the rain too fierce; all the girl did was go in circles. Then, suddenly, there were arms around her

10 Easy Steps to a Better Intellectual Life

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Let’s face it, there are simply too many things too know these days.

FLY AWAY

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Why is the sky grey he asked meI don't know, I saysudden flashes of light snowbloat the cloudssea gulls are squawkingexpect them to peck at my headI have nothing to feed them

Rosaleen In Mourning

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She hardly twitches. Her face regards the stars. If her body is an object, it is the isthmus before global warming. They want to find the source of the glacier in her eyes that is always melting. Maybe they like a woman who cries.

HOMESTEADING

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She had loved sleeping in Todd’s arms at night, hearing the soft tinkle of crystal above her when cool drafts moved through the house, his hand wandering over the swell of her belly.

Fuck Ups

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we try, we keep trying

Trompe l'oeil

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After her grief had subsided, the wife felt immediate relief. / Suddenly she was free to abandon or pursue loneliness

I've Got a Secret

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There's a man sitting in my room holding a jar of my ashes. That's what he claims.