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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.

Ants

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Her husband wouldn’t let her call an exterminator. That doesn't work, he said. The real reason he said no was that he was cheap.

Paleo Prophet

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We are insatiable

The Tease

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She was sick and tired of marriage. She didn't want to be a mother, but now she was.

GOING NOWHERE

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you may meet the man of your dreams.

Peacemaker

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He had the cannonball head of Hemingway, the stump neck, sloping shoulders and barrel chest.

Bestiary

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A woman posted a story on Fictionaut about discovering that her husband was a werewolf.

Wingless messenger

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a bird who gives messages

Rwanda Suite: Gasoline

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I realize the kid is still smoking. Shocked, I tear the cigarette from his mouth, throw it to the earth, and grind it to death with the heel of my boot.

There's Always A Tree Dying Somewhere

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