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Pitspits

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a perpetrated fraud

Light

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"You gonna be old before you're old," my father had told her.

1994, What I Wanted

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Xanax, A hand gun, And the courage to pull the trigger

Year of the Microbes

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Gathering

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In the office supply store on Union, Jeremy, the stock boy, shelves tubs of rubber bands. Tubs with an easy-access pop-top and a see-through container. If Hendy saw these tubs, she would think these particular rubber bands resembled anorexic gummy-worms,

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tonight's sky is full:/each lunatic to his moon/sings separate songs.

Understudy

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All young and loud and big and I swear her face like a lighthouse lamp, glowing—I remember thinking, ‘She’s drunk at nine in the morning.’

Assiduity Twenty Two

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Warning: reader beware, there's sex in the air.

The She-Wolf of Leningrad

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The heavyset blind woman came into the art opening without a dog or a cane.

Quinine Tablets

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a little bitter for the better

Off the Grid

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The slicing is easy. Blade barely touching skin, flesh separating into two clean parts. A breath, and blood fills in the space, an old friend materializing in the shadows. I am redolent with hope and desire. I can't stop thinking of how he excised himself from my…

The Sextant

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I was hope, and you were what I can only call consolation, as day after day you remained a grief in my throat.

The Bounce

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I. Two cancer scares since June, one came up nothing the other nothing much. (My breasts are dense: I know all about moles— little bastards don't have to get sun to go nuts.) My manuscript travels ether to…

Dozen

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strung from her window to a tree

soft soap

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you were very very small, you were everso small, you were like – the tiniest creature, hopping about on one leg

Or Do You Love It?

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published in The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review.

Cairn

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Your cairns/ are litter in the streets

Semi Tiresias

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I knew my mother would die by the weekend

13 Crimes Against Love, or, the Crow's Confession

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He's kneeling on the floor of his West Village apartment, by the door, asking me to leave. He first said he saw someone once a week. But what he means is that they sleep together every night, as they live together, and spend their Sundays together.

January First

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Enumerate the small delights/ this bright first morning

visionary

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let it lie

Old Age

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Are they too old for life's little pleasures? The answer comes as I pass them on the canyon road one morning.

The MacGowans Flee West

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Some believe the Scots were encouraged to emigrate, hired guns as it were, to Ireland to civilize that population. If that's the case, we would see it as another evil English trick. In any case, we MacGowans are Scots Irish and Protestant.

Mad Max

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When his wife left him, a friend told him that resentments were like canceled checks. You weren't going to get your money back.

One in the Numberless Series of Requiems

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We perform our chosen duty— naming/ beauties and atrocities within

Ants

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The fettuccine is a disaster. Mini-ants have invaded the container. Barry spots them in the boiling water after pouring in the pasta, not much more than floating black specks, but too many to ignore. He dumps out the pasta and returns to the closet to…

My Man Wears Cherry Pants

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My man wears chartreuse shoes.! He wears chartreuse shoes like a new king right there on Main St.!

Stations of the Cross

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“Jesus fall the second time. You want a map? Ten shekels.”

The Hostage

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My mother should have been a minister or a peace officer. Instead, she was a homemaker who ran the home like an agency. There were certain hard and fast rules.

Unnamed

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The child was delivered, set to breathing, and whisked away before Fae Anne could even catch a glimpse of her.