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Bon Bons

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love notes yellowed through the years

Prime cut

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1I don't like it when they leave the heads on.I mean it's not nice, is it.The idyllic order of the abattoir.Mary is on stunning and bleeding.She prefers evisceration.Still, the work's ok and it's her day off tomorrow.Deft hands perform their daily ballet.Mary had a…

Fantasm

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but with a light, a rainbow light which was scattered, maybe she herself was a scattering of light, an infinity of universes caught like the opening rays of sunlight

A Life

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Born, he stood up. He wore nothing as often as possible

Dos Equis

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dos equis ambar sits cool and dark by my side

halloween haiku

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a dry bony voice/from a desiccated soul/coughs up its own throat.

Three Stanzas Ending with a Line from R. Crumb

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The squirrels will not stop peeing on the trees.

Dislocutions

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Q: This name in Basque means “owns a new house.” A: What is “Xavier”?

Arcana Magi Behind the Scenes: The Making of Arcana Magi Universe Ver 2.0

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A Nonfiction Behind the Scenes look at how the Arcana Magi Universe came to existence.

Love, a comet, omens and wings

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My love for him like wax wings/ so long they stretched eternal— beating in the sky, grazing peaks,

Sports day at the School for Clowns

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The javelin was cancelled after the unfortunate incident with Mrs Parker last year, but no one could have predicted this year’s sack race tragedy.

The agreement

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It felt like he'd just taken his marriage out into the woods, forced it to its knees, and put a bullet through its head. Or they had, together.

A Story

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Like many little towns, ours has an archive. It is a catalog of everything that happens.

City Girls Never Need Car Keys

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But they all know the parking prayer...

Having Read the Poems of Matt Dennison

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Having read the poetry of Dennison I hereby give up writing.

Obituary

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I won't fail at this like trying to fix a leaking sink without mud grease or washers tinier than Cheerios.

Molasses

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My T-shirt read BOO HOO.

Cradle

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Fingers fan like birds’ wings cradling the volume, head hanging low and lips moving silently...

Librarians! What Are We Hiding?

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Librarians are hiding something. What is it?

Game Day

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Being awake for the sunrise, that is the good planfor writing poemsand listening to enginesbirdsand bus stop silence.Now, I'm going to smokeout back on my roof porchfrom this atticapartmentin this desert land of big-titted blondesand listen to stadium fansrage…

Parcel

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you hear the knell of kindness long before its cathedral voices -- a recessional -- barters better times.

Eggshells

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The eggs got badder as the cook got madder

Journal of Puritan Minister, Jon Sorrim: Fragment 1

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It was the first time I had ever seen a possession.

Security

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Her preferred post-coital activity is to pant, to suck in air with urgent greed.

Uncle Moscow

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He asked me to bury him in Vegas. Instead, I had him cremated in Trenton.

Daddy, Can I Have A Puppy?

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Dad must have walked around with me 20 times, the store closed around us and finally he said I could have one. They were all in different poses and sizes, with black spots. Except one. One had silver spots.

Hole

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For a person you don't know, a stranger with a lot of place, you think much of him.

I Don't Know What I might say

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But it all works out. I guess. Truth is something I'm sure I've never seen before, but the more time goes on, the Less I'm inclined to believe in it. Still I don't want To be one of those giving the finger to God And begging for a showdown with an…

Turkey Hunt

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While I was still new at Black & Twigg, shortly before Thanksgiving, Percy brought me a handwritten memo to type, the subject “Turkey Hunt,” addressed to all Black & Twigg employees in the San Francisco office from management. It said that the firm…

A Little Evil Will Do You Good: Kansas City Jazz

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When the Borgias ruled Italy they had murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love and 500 years of democracy, and produced the cuckoo clock.