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Lost among the Riff-raff

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Poor, pocked Ceres- dwarf planet/ trapped among mere asteroids-

deja not

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I haven't felt my soul leave my body

DIGGING

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The steady sound of shoveling for the past three hours would have woken her, should have made her come to the window...

Life as a Porno

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It could as well be late night infomercials/ saturating the screen// with medieval looking exercise machines

The Chance of Rain

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I'm still working on this. I'm always open to your thoughts.

Joan of Dark

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What happens in heaven stays in heaven.

Popeye

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In one of the cartoons I watched as a child, Popeye the Sailor gives Olive Oyl a bouquet of flowers. She is thrilled, he walks on air, thinking they will marry. His one-eyed heroism is soon challenged by Bluto however, who pours cement into Popeye's bath. It goes…

Do you dream?

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Megalomania is a kind of backwards leprosy. It rots your insides out while your skin glistens and grows tighter around your bones.

12.22.12

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No jagged bits of crust were thrust up/ through the prairie’s black gumbo/ to give us cataclysmic mountain views.

Bukowski

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that guy/ MOSTLY understood / endings

A Skeptic’s Faith in Four Parts

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The universe will fuck you over in the end./ That’s what it does, what it’s good at—

Backstory

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My editor even said so: “Ralph, the Karmann Ghia is the only car for Henry. The only one he could have possibly driven.”

More from The Chronicles of His Demise

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Dread and drudgery sour each day

cross-quarter days

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sentinels in a frost-blackened field

Cut

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Effluvium is such a lovely word, so hey surprise it covers rancid butter, vomit, fertile gingko fruit trekked in from the pavement.

Make a Mistake with Me

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I work in finance. Yes, I have money. Yes, my apartment building has a doorman.

What Should I Say?

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All About the Tumor

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Stupidity is not a mask; it is the face / and it is the face that betrays us / always.

White Legs

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...lotus roots carved with clunky holes like a mouse’s drawing of Swiss cheese.

Bitter Bits

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Entropy/ has my number.

heart-shaped stones

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heart-shaped stones love, devotion no way

Sunday Morning Series- 7: Sunday Morning Trifurcation

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Go diddle in the sand// to save some other sinner/ a death of stones.

Gabrielle in Arrears

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You should be calling 911

When the Witness Calls

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Here they come, those witnesses.

Sounds from the Sun

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It was a lovely day all the horrors in deep hiding leaving me, leaving all of us, a chance to wonder why

Wireless

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It seems that back in 1911, Kaiser Wilhelm came to this town

Solzhenitsyn Jukebox

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A retired feminist literary agent named Jackie and her boyfriend, Jock, were on board. Jock was kind as one might expect of a man traveling with a feminist, and Jackie was happy yet stern. She mentored me one day over lunch.

All there is

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You need buttered broths and to copy old writings by hand by very poor light.

Fossil Beach

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hiking to Fossil Beach

In Real Time

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We are the same shits/ we were in the Bronze Age