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Bougainvillea

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Marcel Proust ran about the grounds chasing an itinerant tennis ball and kissing the guests, his huge testicles sweeping the lawn.

Hotel Chelsea

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He tells people about the whores, but what he really recalls is when someone from a room above dropped a rug on his patio.

MY WAR

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In May of 1982, my daughter and I planned a trip…

Cooking

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  His grandmother's recipe called for the pasta dough to be beaten with a bone--and not just any bone either. It had to be a human femur. This was his first hurdle. Where would he get such a thing at this hour in this part of town? Or, for that matter, at any…

The Nudist Camp at the End of the Rainbow

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What did they even invent clothing for? I asked.

Hard Times

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None of this is real, he says, and the path slopes down to a house that is possibly haunted. One always looks in such windows, one cannot not look at the predictable detritus of another's failure, a queer satisfaction, a fairy's dust. But no, not real, none of it. And…

America From The Outside

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You aren’t easy to explain, you Americans.

hush

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every timeyou openyour mouthan angel fallsinto a vat of whiskyshut ityou're fucking up heaven2013 - Rene

I

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I thought of you todayand what you put me throughthe time you saidwe couldn't rest.

one dozen haiku

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strumming on the pipe/blowing on the lute's body/drumming on the horn.

He Ages

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'love is when the body goes away.'

Three

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Men and their inevitable disappointments—sure, why not?

Other People’s Children

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Children should not be made to do things unless they want it.

Doors

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Marge came home with a Doors CD.

Carry On

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But God could tell that Adam was still not/ right with His world, alone as he was. Alone/ is fine for a Maker of Worlds but facsimiles/ are so much less than the Original.

November Light

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the neighborhood glistens, silver,/ in an otherwise sad November/ light

Hardaway's Poems Piss Off DC Bigwig

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Gladstone called him a ‘goddam nihilist’--

The Day The Music Died

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I heard an old Stevie Ray Vaughn tune this morning. It triggered a flash back. It’s funny how just a few notes of a song can slam me right into a memory. A total and complete immersion. Sights. Sounds. Smells. The people. The place. The weather. Wha

Cactus Subconscious

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The voice in the sand: "If it has soul you must funk it."

Potato Head

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I weighted her so she would be suspended in the water. Sometimes late at night I would go down to the edge and listen to her bump against the filtration system. The sound she made was soft and low like a strange drum.

Oaxaca Dreamland

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She thinks she trusts this man; she wants to trust him. His face reminds her of a man who once took care of her on an airplane when she was a kid traveling by herself.

No Word for Enchantment

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fanned lashes on rouged cheek a glamorous sea creature in violet perfume

Preaching to a streetlight

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Father Dunne's School for Wayward Boys #5

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The big wigs call it aiding and abetting. I became an left-handed accountant with a tendency to fudge numbers for the damned.

Spider and Fly Cafe

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I saw it coming from five feet

Prospectus

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The question isn't whether we will survive-/ like rats, we are supremely adaptive-// but whether we should survive.

The Farmer's Sons

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Crumbling Stones Crush Our Self Esteem

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Jimi and Janis remain fierce and beautiful

Invasion

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That summer crawled with them, insects of every denomination: cicadas caught by the cat, wingless, came to rest in the roots of the garden we planted; sudden swarms of dragonflies...

Barrier Island

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At the beach house