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Keepers

19731973 views1313 comments44 favs

His hands go up and down on me. You love me don't you he says. I don't know I say.

Pumpkin Patch

19731973 views11 comment00 favs

Artie invited me to go with him to pick out a Halloween Pumpkin for the house. I had recently moved into a communal living situation and we were still getting to know each other. Artie was the kind of person who made a special occasion out of ordinary life. Why…

Laughing, Crying

19731973 views55 comments44 favs

It was Brad, for short; or so he would say. But really his name was Bradford, and he was a writer. He had almost always lived in New York. He was only half-white. His mother had run away with a black man in the sixties. Her father had told her to never come back to…

The Big Game

19731973 views33 comments55 favs

The vampire donated floodlights so the children could play ballgames at night. The lights came on but the dugouts remained vacant. The vampire sat alone in the bleachers. “Sometimes I am less than the sum of my parts,” he said to the sum of his parts.

Permission to Go

19721972 views1010 comments66 favs

Now that I no longer sleep to see you, propelled by this motion that is not magic

Librarians! What Are We Hiding?

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Librarians are hiding something. What is it?

Elsewhere

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

The Child Who Loved Emily Dickinson

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Until it happens to you, and I hope, and you should pray, that it never does, you cannot appreciate the consolation of believing that your are merely losing your mind.

How I Left Onandaga County

19721972 views1010 comments44 favs

So, like I said. Da. I have dealt with the men, when I was a lap dancer. The men they need the….manipulations. I have good hands. They want me to see them naked, their power. Here it is only the women. The massage, the facial, the waxing...

mnemonic haiku

19711971 views77 comments55 favs

skies electric blue,/limpid dewy air, the world/framed by a small farm.

Girl Friends

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Two women grab a table near a window in a coffee shop. Outside, the sky is the color of dulled aluminum. It is early spring and pollen assaults the air with a tint of sulfur.

The Day You Told Me You Fucked Her

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I imagined you going at her in ferocious fucking-- / O, O, O, O, O, O, O Immortal Glistening Cock,

Peach (2)

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He has stubby, rough little fingers. Good.

Park Bench

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Then daylight's lovely lantern/ Dressed in yellow white/ cleanness/ Danced a ballet towards/ Her majesty’s park bench/ She did! She sat on you!

Things That Glow

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The tiny green light flashing in the lawn of an apartment building one night that caught Roberta’s attention while we were walking home from Café Vita.

Arcana Magi - c.20: Compelling

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Danica paused for a moment as thoughts of going to Avalon Tech changed to heading for Mystic Intelligence. She could not understand why she thought about going there.

Borges in the SUB

19691969 views2121 comments88 favs

"There's Borges."

Work Room

19691969 views1919 comments99 favs

the constant inner jabber

Ancestry.com

19691969 views1717 comments1010 favs

Ancestry.com The Liverpool census in 1851 lists him:Thirteen years old, Irish. Occupation: beggar. Only that. I will do more for him.I will see him in torn jacket and too-short pants singing all day of the fields, the cliffs,…

Trees Today

19691969 views1414 comments1010 favs

are my only real friends. They don't seem to mind my shuffling down the dirty sidewalks without acknowledging their mere scraggly presences like friendly tombstones. They are growing their hair out again. I've noticed that much. We've got a…

The Dead

19691969 views33 comments33 favs

When i close my eyesI see the faces of the deadI hear their voices The things they said, their laughter The ones i thought would live forever!! Something got them though: the ones who lived fastIt was a drug, some bullets, a disease I thought they would live forever!!Those…

The Last Bailout

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In desperation, the city council imported a shaman to exorcise whatever demons had possessed the house.

Wuthering Heights: 21st C Remix (Anti-love version)

19691969 views99 comments66 favs

That Bronte woman had me painted like Eminem’s Stan Or a droog from Kubrick

Wedding Bells & Space Junk [July challenge]

19691969 views11 comment11 fav

Right away, like toadstools, there were crackpot theories. The first: that kids out on the lake dock, against fire department warnings...

I will be your girlfriend, Sam Pink

19691969 views11 comment00 favs

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.

Walking The World Alone

19681968 views55 comments44 favs

Yeah I walk itWithout a companionOr friendI walk the world aloneIt seems right to meI don't like the moviesMost television showsOr most popular musicI walk the world aloneUnable to buildAn emotional attachmentWith anyoneI walk the world aloneWith beer as My…

To All the Lights

19681968 views1414 comments1212 favs

I have nothing in me but a raw loneliness right now. It's as if someone whirl-winded me out of the sky into the middle of the ocean in the middle of the red faced night. My fate seems immobile, sealed, doomed to a rocking nothingness, like…

Visiting Sally

19681968 views1818 comments1717 favs

Buddy was in a garage band. They were pretty good. “Soul Harbor“ they called themselves.

Snatch X

19681968 views1717 comments1414 favs

...the astonishing discovery...

Watering

19681968 views1111 comments88 favs

“Sometimes when I feel the urge to create, I don’t know whether to grab my paints, my camera, my guitar or my pen.” “You could have sex,” her friend, sitting in the desk next to hers, joked.