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It was in the spring of 1958 when I first arrived in Kobe, Japan, traveling aboard a Norwegian merchant ship, looking to make movies on a limited budget. Superior quality cameras, lenses, and film were being produced in Japan at a fraction of the cost for similar products…
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The world is full of dead dogs
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I recognized the smile. It was a “I’ve got you where I want you now,” smile.
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It wasn't meant to happen like this— the shutter, the feeling of breathlessness when he touched her shoulder, even after he had pointed out all of the things she had done incorrectly throughout the day. They had been married for five years in February, and as…
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He finds a beach ball and recreates humanity upon it. Kicking it down the shore he wonders how the little people must feel about each other. To place them on such a tiny globe almost seems unfair.
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Over fifty plastic flamingos stood silently at attention... as if eating sea urchins out of our lawn.
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Oh, and take off all your jewelry unless you want your relatives sifting you through a window screen looking for your diamond.
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Sometime that night I heard one; you get so you know when they’re coming in low down the valley or set up high over the coastals and I was sure about it.
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Buddy was in a garage band. They were pretty good. “Soul Harbor“ they called themselves.
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The Muse stands at the summit of a paragraph playing with a yo-yo.
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Grace Gibbons is a way of life.
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". . . with the impact of a 18-wheeler jack-knifed into a Mini-Cooper as it hits the surface."
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The end is rehearsed over and over;/
in a world without heaven all is farewell.
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In his dreams, he swam in piles of pills. Sometimes the piles were infinite, other times the were contained, tonight the pills were intense shiny reds, chalky yellows, deep blues and matte purples and swirled around in a children's inflatable castle. Derek swam happily,…
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feathered waves of tangerine peach
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Marlene smiles at me with her lips pressed together. The young girl standing with her can't be more than fourteen or fifteen although she is tall for her age. She too smiles. She has an intricate set of braces on her teeth. I can't tell if Marlene has teeth
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Great Uncle did stunts in silents and shot a man in a cowboy one-reeler, then vanished to the hills like Roy Earle in High Sierra.
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If ever I read a poem aloud
It will not be from a podium’s shelter
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I formed a snowball in my bare hands. Hard as a rock, I let her fly.
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Where we live, at the edge of the foothills at the east edge of town, fire is always a worry during the summer, and this has been an exceptionally dry year.
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But on arrival Darlene was in no prompt mood to undress.
"There's some ugly sumpthin' out there along the fence, looks like it's gnawin' on sumpthin' dead."
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it was your hands—caked
with years-old clay & quaking
from too much solitude
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His mouth smiled but his icy eyes did not. "You like it?," he asked with a thin deflated voice. "Old family recipe. Enjoy."
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Because if they’re wavering, it's about the coin, always about the coin.
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We’re all competitive and drunk.
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Truth came out of it, a little bug that hovered there...
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the signature of God/
consigning everything/
to the saturating energies of time.
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I don't really know, though. I've been locked in a beer cave for the last ten years of my life. I was just let out by some frat boys who were looking for Natty Light.
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