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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

Damn Sure Right

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The man had come up behind me and locked my arms backwards. I could feel his cock or gun against my low back. He told me if I moved he'd hurt me and he said did I know what that meant? I did know, however I was watching from…

The Days of The Olde Burying Yard

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“Phennias Jessup is his name. That’s his death’s head scroll, an hourglass, bats, spirals and angel’s wings on either side of the top part of the stone. "

You Don't Take Names

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You want to know what happened to him and your curiosity is a cat pawing at the edges of your impatience as you roam aggressively around your old haunts.

The Elvis Latte

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Elvis at a Starbucks. Some graphic words.

I Married a Werewolf

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It really makes you wonder what else you don't know.

Misunderstood

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Leonard didn't know that cute girl well, hardly at all, but he really wanted to. She was his first real crush in Junior High. He got his chance and talked to her some one day while they were walking down the hall between classes. She actually spoke to him first. The bell…

Anniversary Waltz

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He hiked the hills of her condition She biked the path of his delight

Mind-Body Split

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The mirror can never talk back/ unless corrupted creases of the brain/ and its recombinant physical maladies// elect to answer...

Poets Who Thrum

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Poets who thrum jirble and thwack Poets who thrum eat quorn with raw swamms Poets who thrum are eristic (not shambolic) Poets who thrum deliciate unto kench when they freck

Accuracy

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The form I completed yesterday filled out several attachments, including one for passive business loss. I did not believe I had incurred business loss, just that I was freelancing part-time.

I fall out of love, learn not to worry, and get ready to embrace the foreign war...

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Love hurts... Really.

A Love Poem Written Just for You

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You wanted a love poem written just for you. / Here it is. Don’t look askance.

SMOKE & MIRRORS

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These days I wear a flag pin.

Considering a Career

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Mostly, though, reiteration of the old/ in an idiosyncrasy that strives/ to become fresh and fails

Or

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I paid the doctor / You paid the doctor

Under the Night Sky

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wonder at all the things done without regard for you at all.

June 15, 1962

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We left behind the wedding rings on the dresser along with the other jewelry.

You Don’t Know Jack.

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Susan said since her divorce three years ago there have been too many Jacks in her life. Seven, if she counted that older guy. She knew that now. Too many. It was the name and little else that drew her to men. She told me the name alone was like Pavlov's bell. It…

Bones

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Got something inside me hard as nails keeps me walking upright ain't never failed