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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…

Curves

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and the smiles light the way when the wind blows the darkness

Seer

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Celia was born with another baby's head atop her head and everyone in the village thought her cursed. It was because Celia's mother had been too young to be intimate with a man, twelve only, and the man, important in the village,…

Malaise

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Endurance wears the soul thin.// The hour to succumb ticks ever closer.

Carrie Nadeau

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She wouldn't have been the first.

Love Song Number 277

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Tell me how magnificent my mind is

The Fuckers

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The fuckers tumble out of the bathroom like clowns from a tiny car. The girl has these huge tits and dark red hair. She rushes past me, smelling like chocolate. A guy's behind her, holding onto the back of her jeans. He's not good looking enough to…

Why do I put up with this woman?

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She doesn't even know who wears the Adam's apple in this house.

Elephant in the City

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No beeping of horns, just complete silence. No panic, just calmness. There’s this one word: serendipity.

like a child

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where is the magic at? the spit the dirt or the words?

Lucky Strike

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I like the smoke going in but I like it even more when it's coming out

Valley Rugstore

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He hunched low and forward on his bike, his 14-year old self, flying down the dusty back roads of this Great Midwestern Land, his head full of the smell of the algebraic girl he sat behind in math class just hours ago.

Something Jazzy

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. . . clinging to life in a shroud of winter air. It veered up five flights to a sweltering summer night on the roof . . .

Scratching into January, 2017

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Follow the money. It seeks/ the lowest of the low and finds them here/ in an embarrassing abundance.

Real Time

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November days

At the Wedding

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I wear a white dress. I vomit on hers.

First Ending

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His wife had just come from the gynecologist and was toying with her French fries.

Silent Summer

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It's eerie. There are no birds. My friend and I take our morning walk in a bubble of silence.

Sid's Girls

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Sid, the owner of the red convertible, always slept with his twin Lhasa Apsos, Helpless and Hopeless. He was an early riser and took his “girls”, as he called them, out for a brief walk, yes, and also he was up early to take his morning penicillin because he…

Ajloun Castle

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the wind mistook your arms for wings

Death, looking over the poet's shoulder, whispers...

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Pre-mortem

Assemblance

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I assemble myself daily// from the ready-mades/ of a fast talking world,

The Poet Faces a Government Shutdown

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R just sent me a funny text: Nice nice shit rainbows

Tiger Milk-a play in 3 acts

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Imagine the poem written with a pistol at your head.

Drift

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Dreams & foghorns.

The Sky is Simply White

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The rain is no terrible epitaph

Late Night Learning

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A wrinkled man lie atop an ivory-clad mattress, matched sheets covered his body, matched hair covered his head.

The Death of Tarzan

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Martín stood over the slow, labored panting as if it were a mystery he could not explain. The dog lay on the frayed pillow bed, a knot of fur and skin, in his father’s office. One eye, like an almond floating in milk, stared up at the boy.