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chicken little considers the sky again (a parable for our time)

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oh, sure i’m still running around like a heads-up/off/prophet/profit/fit trying to cut off my very own de/(con)instruction and all other sordid a•void•able & available /a-Babel-Trumpish towers of post & toastmodern doom/daze/haze

String Money

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I said hey man, how you doin’? He looked up and nodded but his shades flashed and I couldn’t see his eyes.

Linear Critic

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8) An exercise online calls for the first sentence on page 45 of the book nearest you as a suggested description of your love life. The book 9) nearest me still is _The Quarterly_, 1, spring 1987, that I have on my desk in preparing to write an essay.

someone tweeted f. scott fitzgerald reciting ode to a nightingale

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poor son of a bitch

Honeymoon Bike Ride

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On my honeymoon, we went upstate to the Catskill Mountains.

The Swimmer

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He got tired of the pool party, the chit-chat, the suburban posturing, and he decided to swim home.

Watching

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An anorexic middle-aged woman walked up and watched me..

Farm

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untilled, weedy, left to rest

Song of Unself

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nothing suffices as harbor / but a permit to claw at every yawing chasm

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Winter melts to ashes and now we walk where hillocks dip like pillows, where a warm pocket of air keeps the scent of spring beauties for itself. Sensitive vetch so easily shocked folds under a feather yet the earth trembles where trout lilies shove. Buds stall on lilacs…

re-homed

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aquatic, free-swimming or earth-bound

Frank & Frank

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Ok, so I know this guy, he's a friend of mine. A good friend, even though I think he's left too big a tip on the bar more than once. His name is Frank.

I Never Metafiction I Didn't Like

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If you find a nickel-plated Colt .38 lying on top of a worn copy of King Lear, you’ll know who you’re dealing with.

Star Heart

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This is the place I could find my breath. I didn'tSay I understood it. I only wanted to hold someone andMeant to. I don't care about the rules for caring.This place where I could speak was incredibly far from Where I'd once met you. The place where I could…

The Colour of Love

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I carried him home, all blood and brains, and set him in the ground. Is that love, George?

Lamenting Lexiconical Loss

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Neglected long enough, uncalled for/ by the shrinking language of the day,// my words abandon me.

Music

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Five micros

Salzburg

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One night while in rehab I had a dream that I worked as a violin maker in Salzburg.

Pterodactyls

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In his head he thinks oh whatever when I wake this time I shall have a very fine discussion with Someone special, oh but finding meaning in anything nowadays that's Just too much rich flattery, isn't it, filthy mirror? Inside His head's…

Longshot Down Undah

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He said stuff like ‘Crikey that's a knife',” she said, “it was bad, really really bad.”

Assiduity Seventeen

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In the darkness, as I awaken, an orange glowing 3:45 greets me . . .

'The Good Life' Not by Bud Smith

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I'm trying to read a Poetry in Motion poem on there wall of a crowded electric train

Early (Valentine's Day Challenge)

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Beside her door there was a black squirrel in the dogwood she saw scratched his armpit.

Elsewhere

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when the surface of a photograph gets like this that it has gone blind

So Twinkle Made Lemonade

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“Just how many different animals try to hide their nakedness?” “Only one. And that'd be us, idiot.”, Twinkle responded. “Then, why don't we mind sometimes showing our bodies?”, she then asked. Twinkle could see it was going to be another…

Reckonings

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Even in the fading light, it looked big enough to disembowel a man.

Move Along

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W here do you think you're going what'll you think you'll do running down this highway that you never even knew

Peach (2)

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He has stubby, rough little fingers. Good.

Dr. Wong

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Hippy health food. It all began with Hannah’s homemade granola.

blowing

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elton wrings the melody from the words into the silent but pulsing air