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Bad Back

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Sharpie marked, Free Still Works

CBGB

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Lou Reed was sitting in CBGB, I was sitting on Greenwich Ave. and West 10th street. I didn't know him then and I didn't know him later either, but we were both there.

Lost Kites

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Unseen, he slides through cracks, unbound, liquid fear of mothers.

The Woman Who Cut Down Her Husband

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The woman carried a wooden log which was her husband into the house.

If Pigs Could Fly

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One day we turn a corner, and two fat little doggies spot us and come running up. Oh, they are so glad to see us!

The Gallery of Wounds

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The blood is memorable/ as is the copper taste of that/ momentary certainty of lockjaw.

My Mind Says It Wants to Forget Everything

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you think it knows about getting us as far as wehave, to the here we are now boathouse where we can stop holding onto our worldweary chains so much. How else can I slap this thing into a new clay pot for you? All those things that are…

Stage Play in Five Acts of Her: Matinee

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I could have writ­ten her as is with long bushy hair, skinned knees, over­hauls, blue­berry stains on her fin­gers and teeth because she eats them too much. I love her bet­ter this way, blueberry-stained and wild....

Quittin' Ain't Easy

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Hey, Y'all! Like I told y'all, I checked myself into this what you call a “ facebook Rehab Clinic” up here just about 40 miles outside of Kalispell, Montana in a little town called Gulag. I quit MySpace and that got me a reduced rate. Things are…

White Bread

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Brian takes off his size eleven shoe and shakes it out on the table.

Good Deed Punished (Matthew IV)

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homelessness, you called the lie,

Her

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It's time, more than anything

The Last Birthday Party

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The boy giggled, splashing his father and howling at the cold.

MAO

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She was as distant as Mao, someone I never met, but whom everyone carried in their eyes,

Dreams from the Station

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I was squatting in the living room at the party handling foreign currency. Two W.A.S.P. men in dark grey suits—we were partygoers new to each other—told us to keep the money. We removed the bills from a black leather album.

Empty or Too Full?

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If Everything is Inevitable

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Christine comes back from the future looking tired, which is the opposite of what I expected. For some reason, I imagined the future as being invigorating. But she walks into the apartment and abandons her suitcase by the front door, collapses into a heap on the couch next…

Kill Allan

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I still want to kill Allan, because he now is unseen

Chairs and Mirrors

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There's a mirror in front of me and I thought it was so I could see myself, but I didn't want to see me.

Star Light, Star Bright

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I am experience and information// at a small but irredeemable remove.

You Atop Franz Josef Glacier, Twelve Miles From the Tasman Sea

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58 words

Thanksgiving

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Unless we see it, probe it, Name it, star by star, and feel This awful, tenuous gratitude.

from Flatlander's Suite

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Under nervously flickering fluorescent lights / your name will grow / fed by the tongues of Those Who Never Leave

Litter Box

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When I died, she said, she was going to have me cremated and put my ashes in the cats’ litter box.

I'll be Home for Christmas - 2

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Warning: contains sexually suggestive comments.

Boy Toy

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Sometimes you can't sleep.

wanna be a cowboy?

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no one likes a bitchy cowboyhike up yer britchespull yer brim down'nshut up and ridestop making petsout of peevesand idolsout of gossipinsteadmake a hobbyout of yer horseand fer godsakesseason that saddle

Smackdown

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you escape by finding the bubbles

Source Code

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....the first/ in a long history of indignities.

The secret meaning of celebrity

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Unapproachable... for all that.