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On the bank of the stream, we take off our clothes and dash into the water.
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202421
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Jack, man in black, sporting manicured talons, his smile an iced knife.
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The three of us traveled seven hours that day and Al traveled as far in the service of finding the right tool for his writing.
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2023137
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A team of reggae journalists played and an unknown man came after work for me in a kilt.
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202333
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In the spring, my father would dress for class in a bear costume and chase students around campus.
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20232119
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Every day hurts, just a little, but not enough
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202351
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Class (appears in my book Breaking it Down; no journal publication) When your neighbor James Frehley cusses you out for hanging a block and tackle from the silver maple in your front lawn, begin to pull the engine from your Galaxie anyway, smile and nod…
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Tombstones are only granite symbols of a man’s life, Gus thought as he changed lanes. Children, they were the ultimate epitaph.
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nothing has ever happened in this or that or any other or maybe too damn many parallel universes. . . .
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202201
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I wonder how much time she has left. I think she’s seventeen. I don’t know for sure because she was already grown when I got her from the pound, just before Christmas, years ago this was --back when I had hair and hope.
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202200
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Sometimes I have really violent dreams where I smash Libby’s face in with a liquor bottle, a brick, a mounted boar’s head... really whatever my brain makes available to me. I always wake up satisfied.
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Watching water fall in the longest waterfall/
becomes immediately tedious
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202276
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...some years later I heard that an old friend jumped off that bridge to her death.
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2021179
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I turned on the television last night, and one of the networks had a segment about a girl with no nose.
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202121
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I used to think the world was fucked and it was up to me and me alone to see it unfucked. That's really what I used to think, but I've been trying to work on that. It's not a particularly flattering characteristic I have. I'm trying to be more positive.
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202120
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A cloud of light, white smoke floated out of the driver’s side window. Nate and Zach sat on the front bench seat, talked, and puffed away. “Breath in and say Mom is coming,” said Zach.
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20211711
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When he woke he carried the body of a cat instead of a man. Next to him his cat dreamed it had a human body.
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202132
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She's had a magnetic sign made for the side of her Honda, TRUTHMOBILE, simple and elegant. Maybe too simple; she's worried it suggests a religious affiliation.
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202086
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Every lunch time the numerous small jukeboxes that are distributed about the dining area fill the air with webs of King Curtis and Benny Goodman.
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202000
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Was Sligo an unfeeling privacy-violator or an uncannily-feeling empath, privy to the deepest longings of those whose lives he came in contact with? [...] Sligo's grave is as silent as these pages ultimately would be if they were left unread.
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20201813
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—Was it true, what you wrote in that poem?
—Pretty true.
—What do you mean “pretty true”? Was it true or wasn’t it?
—It was as close as you get to truth in poems.
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201920
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Every day she loves me a little less, and justifies it by saying that there is less of me to love.
At some crucial, overlooked space in our life together, I used up my compassion and started to spend hers.
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2019104
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3D is killing my porn career.
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20191815
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I forgot how masterful you are, way better than a pickpocket. After our meeting, I drove home with one hand. It felt funny but I figured I'd absentmindedly put the other in my purse or tossed it into the backseat with my jacket. In my…
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201941
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My father is remarkably clever. That is, for a rundown, henpecked fisherman. He has caught me again. He has me slung over his back in a rickety lobster trap and I can hear him huffing and the water in him sloshing and though I can't see his face, I imagine it is ruddied…
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201931
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Mr. Lowell knelt down and put his face in his hands, his knees quickly covered in blood. Sobs.
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201996
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But do come close enough for me to hear.
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201812
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My parents were married for forty five years. “A lifetime,” is how the rabbi at my mother's funeral describes it. The man says it with such a tone of familiarity, of genuine sadness, that one might think he has known and adored my parents all their lives. But…
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20181611
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I sit down next to a youngster on the couch. “Would you like to see?” she asks. “See what?” I reply....
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20182316
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They will take you, naked,
and put their tongues and fingers
into intimate, erogenous openings
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