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Crazy Eyes

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The kid with a testosterone chip Instead of a brain

Tomorrow

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On the febrile edge

The Work of Constant Rising

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When did the air become warning?That clairvoyant delft and Delphic sky.What strange and ardent premonitionheld sway? Where were we goingbefore this hard work of constant falling?We were catching cabs and making breakfast,ironing, cursing late trains; hoping the deal…

Car

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My father brought home a turquoise Porsche with red leather upholstery. My sister and I were small, eight and six, and fit tightly in the jumpseats behind my parents.We went for a ride, tooled around Rome, circled the Colosseum, showing off for the people looking. My father…

Working at a Truck Stop Outside Charlotte

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My name's Barbara and don't call me Barbie if you want to be my friend.

Kind-hearted Assassin

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In the Alley

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as i sink down into the shadows crawling like a worm past cold bricks centuries old in my blood

First the Newborn Birds on High and Then the Awful Climbing Beasts

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"Stop watching the news!Because the news contrives to frighten youTo make you feel small and aloneTo make you feel that your mind isn't your own"--MorrisseyThe world has gone crazy, but please let me make you One of my healing songs. You can eat it now, if you…

Original Sin

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The sirens didn’t eat the sailors

Letter to the Editor

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Some time ago, I began to write you letters with the idea of helping your newspaper become a more complete map of our little shared world.

Cybersymbiosis

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a human hand/ looks sadly/ naked now

The Oxymoronic Life of a Nearly Dead Woman

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I could have a minor stroke.

The "Just Do It" Moon

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The calls come in a few times a week. When the unknown someone calls Safety Now, Radon Testing and Elimination Headquarters, Mrs. R. wonders who it is that just sits silently on the other end of the line. She wants to say, "Look, if you're a bill colle

A Thousand Books

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I gave away 1000 books.

In Your Dreams

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What did it mean? What would a psychologist say? Oh, who cares. In my opinion, we ask why, what, when, where, and how too often.

My Paper Boats, Your Paper Boat

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You make your art when you can and Perhaps vice versa. You really Don't know what that means? Consult your tarot. You make your Art and visualize your mind As a large pool of water. You Make your art and if you're lucky They may…

The Great Bank Run of 1912

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She bought her first gerbil at the age of nine. She wondered if he would die from endless logrolling. When he died from natural causes, she refused to bury him and kept a distance from the first boy who kissed her--Thomas J. Hobbit. The next year a twister swept…

Cavity

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his perfect ivory voice telling me i brush too hard. …as if he cared

Until We Died

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. . . hot sand and quiet ocean only.

bird

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Your mother is a great and dying bird. Once, she tended her grand feathered nest. Once, she preened.

Done.

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you dug a hole inside my heart and asked me if it hurt

Dancing with the Marionettes

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After coming back from nowhere,

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you notice some of what you need― a pressure of something you've intended, somewhere without a place,

(after Hemingway)

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FOR SALE. One prom dress, never worn. Size 18.

Dream Life

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I'm walking you / through Pere Lachaise

Flutter in Night

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Have you heard this yet? The daughter flew home to care for the mother, whose pump is still tick ticking—though now with aid—which means she leaves the kitchen when the microwave clicks on.

Dinner, As Told On Twitter

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She sometimes ate her dinner standing up, in front of her living room window.

Year End Close-out

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Strauss does all the stirring at the start./ The rest is all murk and meander

The Get-Up

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There was a children’s lit theme running through the party. Aside from Annemarie’s costume, there was a Harry Potter, a Pinocchio, and a Grinch.

Slather

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Your soap on the shelf in the shower melts with my every hair wash and I'll miss it the way I should have missed you.