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Picture Window

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You call your wife. “Do you see what I see?” you ask.

This Thing

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I'm sure someone somewhere must havefelt something like it before. Imean I've never been able tohave this kind of deep longing asif you might want to forget everythingyou know. I always figured that funny stuff onlyhappened to folks in a foreignfilm. Not to some guy…

The Guardian

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Tracks

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The winter following their son's death, Mr. Kelly's wife became absorbed by the tracks that ran in back of their house. At any given hour in the night, he'd hear her in the next room, their son's old room where she now slept, shuffling through dresser drawers. He…

Breakfast Dance - a 55 word story

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The handsome man at the opposite table swivels his head at the tall cool slim blonde entering the breakfast cafe. The ordinary woman sitting with him adjusts her chair accordingly. She pretends to ignore her husband's distraction, smoothes her hair, licks her…

End Time

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and you fall down.

The Turning

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A brief colorful season/ and then the fall as winds/ break the hold the leaves have

Tyler is learning about girls.

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Tyler has a Mars bar in his jeans pocket. It’s warm and soft. He tries to insert it.

Mario's Three Lives

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The plumber has three lives left or else he is already dead.

The Escapists

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I sought to feel something. I hunted my mortality. I craved that rush of life pulsating through my veins.

2010; What I Wanted

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You can't always get what you want, and fortunately, that's sometimes a good thing.

blind

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what world is this?

Anatomy of a Breakdown

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Can’t seem to put your clothes on today. You’re wandering in the little closet of your mind again, picking at socks that won’t stay up, shirts that are always too big -

tetanus

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no one cried

Sissyneck

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He pounds the roof of the Pontiac with the side of his fist and it rumbles like a timpani. He raises his head to light and wipes the sweat from his forehead. There's no sense in fighting it. He will go back and knock on Peter's door.

55 words

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The patient people who work with the insane are not my kind of people. They are too entertained by the oddness of the inmates and act with a superior sense. I, on the other hand, am odd myself, searching for adherents to my view. The inmates knew me as such and agreed…

Remembering Conway

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But you can have a lap dance.

Amoco Cadiz

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She'd liked the name of the tanker. The Amoco Cadiz.

Walter

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I keep sneaking looks at this guy on the subway. He's old, maybe 80. Really thin, the kind of thin that makes you think of a skeleton. But he's wiry. His beard, it's a gray, shaggy mess. He's mostly bald, but the hair that grows around the sides and back of his head is too…

He Was Slim And His Eyes Were Wrong

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Trying to hide, and yet, what continued to permeate was the shiny.

the symmetry of Aldo Rossi's handrails

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It would be another difference a building has from a “sculpture”. It would be something that even photographers would have difficulty in disguising, since many modern buildings, even many modern photographs of buildings, place such emphasis on symmetry. For both…

Happy Columbus Day

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Oh to be young and vigorous.

compass/ion

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a question that (never) left

small pleasures

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sheets, white, coarse redolent with Clorox

About Poems

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They often leave me dulled/ and wanting back my time.

Tales from the Golden Age II

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--How's the wriiting business? How about that thing you' was workin' on..."Gawain's Green Nights?" --Yeah, well, I'm kind of off the soft-core...

Missed

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How I felt in Ireland.

August, now and after

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I'll see her this fall, a redhead in camo

Attempting Integration, Duchamp Descends to the Killing Floor

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Slice the moment into/ free body diagrams/ of elegant simplicity

just like James Taylor

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tell me about the time you lived in Carolina, and what my smile does for you.