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Lesson 38

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You have a house (plural, as in Spain)

Redeye Rabbit

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I knew it was just a matter of time...

In the Path of Mary

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She walks ahead, dropping matches as she goes. Grassland is consumed by flames and when I arrive all is wasted.

Shoot

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Dear Brandon Lee: I know that you're dead and can't respond to letters, but I've always felt a connection to you.

The Gospel According to Teeny

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Then I heard it -- a sound like an oboe being strangled. Teeny was farting onto the cement stoop through her jeans, a tripple flutter blast.

Passing Past

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No one means to go that way, on an errand to the mall....

Illicit

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... a moth, a kiss. A silence.

3 Kids

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There he was, naked and covered in green mud

Balloon Seller

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...painted by my mother with meticulous attention...

Small Change

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Life seemed okay…for the most part.

Weight

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We flew./ In my dreams, I can fly.

Seasonality

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... and August's drought/ will yellow lawns, singe the shrubs,/ and amplify cicada song.

clouded

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a current forecast

Shits and Crazies- a Pas de Deux

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Anson Chi/ tried to kill my wife

Trees Today

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are my only real friends. They don't seem to mind my shuffling down the dirty sidewalks without acknowledging their mere scraggly presences like friendly tombstones. They are growing their hair out again. I've noticed that much. We've got a…

Serving

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patience is....

The Haunted Coins

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(I woke once from a bad dream to throw them from the drawer, but my hands were so clammy, the coins stuck to my hand! I had to scrape them off my palm on the edge of the table.)

Forgive Me, Leonard Cohen

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There’s a price / on everything

The Photograph

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But if he's been photographing her for almost thirty years, there must be close to 11,000 images. During the session, they don't speak. And, after so long, words are not really necessary.

Four from “Autobiographies”

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The white space beckons-/ a blank wall in a decrepit neighborhood-/ wishing to be decorated or defiled

Little Tech Puppies In the Artisan Beer Hall

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Little tech puppies, well compensated for code/ that outsourced laborers will realize in supercheap,/ superchipped gewgaws, sip artisan beers

On the Bench (Matthew III)

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turn your face

Throwing Pencils

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I can never tell if he’s drunk or using some sort of substance or if perhaps his brain just doesn’t fire at the pace that we have come to accept as normal.

Something Horrible Has Happened

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The smart drivers know the signs/ and the back street ways around the wreck.

Divided

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Sasha and I had snorted a table of cocaine and I had her trapped inside my Joy Division bedroom.

CONFUSION

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She asks if I would like to join them.

Heart

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Usually I’m the only guy in a roomful of women. Some of them are foxy, too.

Danse Macabre

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Each day, they trot the coiffed/ and painted cadavers across the stage.

She Used to Have Nails

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...the job was easy, just pour and deliver, pour and deliver.

For the Wives

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She parks the car and trudges insidefor her daily visithoping that the new rouge hidesthe old tears.Five years now she has been comingto see himHe looks nothing like the pictures toanyone but her.They say she should go homeand rest, relaxShe doesn't know how…