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Helene

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My little friend is no bigger than a minute. An even five feet tall, if that.

last light

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whisper to me

You are here

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meditation and thoughts run in circles

Summertime City

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Columbus Avenue, I’m the tense union of poor city rich city/ gentrification.

Sanctuary Beach

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We eat, sleep, play Scrabble on our iPads, and go down to breakers at sunrise and sunset. The sunset is spectacular.

How Light Loves You

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The cataclysm of all those photons/ mad to be a part of you

The Transportation of Hens

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Sixteen hundred hens / suffocated / during the collection

Chinese

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Brian stands. The edge of the tablecloth goes up with him, clings to his belt buckle, so he must beat it down. Everyone looks at him. The two old ones at the end glare at him coldly, four stupid eyes.

Vanishing Point

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the two become one where/ all things end,

One A.M. at the Beau Rivage

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After the show they talked at the famous comedian, reaching the way they do, with their arms. Their arms are curved a good way, a better way than the older white planes of my own.

At the Reception

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"Check out these dudes,” he says. “They're all wearing kilts. Not that there's anything wrong with that, as long as they're wearing underwear.

Apollinaire's Trepanned Skull

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It was only when blood began to drip onto the page that he realized he'd been hit.

My Bed Loves Me

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Above-board, we sail

Notes from Underground

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The end is rehearsed over and over;/ in a world without heaven all is farewell.

Last Night On Oil Street

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Tomorrow the authority smashes. Tonight we march, splash, carve letters in wet paint from room to room until steel blades bend. The letters will tilt in shadows gliding over the walls to mask our tales born of fractured wrists and the ghosts, our keepers.

Ways and Means

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the bodies of the poor become/ a simple logistical problem,/ disposable as any gnawed bones

The Guardian of Starlight

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now the days are empty and time has lost its head

Not Creative

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a poem about things exploding/burning down/scattering for miles.

Transcription of Audio: Meeting with Miss Jewel Eppinette

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No one has touched me for a long, long time and I believe that is why I am dying. This is a notion that is new to me but it has persisted over the last few weeks and I believe I finally have apprehended the truth. There was a time, I remember all too well, when I might…

Urgencies

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...it was moving toward me from an oblique angle somewhere behind, steadily, relentlessly.

Out the Window

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she lifted and threw her legs out the open side front window of the speeding auto

If I Were a Chemist, Not Now, but Maybe In The 1920s

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She said, “I think I’m pregnant,” but I thought that the sidewalk looked cleaner than usual,

Them, Not Us

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We hold fast to the bed’s corners, afraid our bodies, these new old bodies, have forgotten how to love in its center.

Still Life

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One rainy day I walked to an out-of-the-way section of town where the buildings were old, and the streets were cobblestone.

At the Revolution

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When we go to the streets/ we’ll have no guns

The Tracing Game

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Shadows skipped across the bedroom wall at 80 km/hour. It wouldn't be so bad if people wouldn't use their high beams but it's the price you pay for living on a dark highway with low property taxes. “How do you sleep in here?”…

I Cant Do This Anymore

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It's a lie, it doesnt mean anything this, only that my lips are ripe and soft.

The Femur

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In the desert, among mauve flowers growing feverishly in the ochre sand, a bone, completely bare. Without underwear, without a shirt, nothing. White as a small cemetery ghost, eroded with age, the weather, the vicissitudes of life. It was a femur. I put it on my desk to…

At the Vet

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The vet sat with a young woman and old man on a bench in the waiting area. The vet talked like a machine-gun, giving post-surgical instructions for the care of a dog as the woman petted the back of her father who was trembling like…

It Isn’t Personal. It’s Business

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because you pay/ for it to matter to me.