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The Man Who Couldn't Speak His Love

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I considered explaining that the universe is still evolving and changing, but the look on her face said GENESIS ONE.

DANCING ON AIR

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You were at a saloon on Water Street. Witnesses say. You were taken out of the place and put on a sloop against your will. Witnesses don’t say.

::HARD (excerpt)

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It wasn’t funny. It wasn’t scary. It wasn’t great. And it never is with people. Except..eventually..when you meet the right person..it is.

Hexagon

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an ominous figure of fear and grace a ball moves back and forth

The tenth point of possession being this... Rev2

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Guys on safari wearing safari jackets shoot things all day, things with funny names …

February

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a big silent western sky

Aforementioned

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I flung the basketball at the hoop and Cooper shagged the ball. He was the luckiest bastard I knew. ...

I Can Take Satan

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It was all I was convinced / in designing the encounter.

The Push-Up Ranch

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There is a push-up on the ceiling. I don't know how to get it down. I've tried hitting it with a broom. That just made it blow steam. I asked my wife, did you do push-ups on the ceiling? She did. Why? It's easier up there. The cat doesn't bother me. Well, you left…

Finale

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the future wrapped up in a dream

Erased

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You took up residence on the dark side of things, a bolthole in a wind-flayed right angle of a tower block where pigeons and suicides tumbled blackly on the air currents. You set about drifting off from who you were on a tide of cheap whisky and bad poetry, graduating…

Silent Season

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we are tired, you and I.

Revelations

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No snippets for you.

Nietzsche

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12 lines

Safe

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He is drilling the door of a safe to access the keys he locked inside.

the ethics of graffiti

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Mannequin

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Having sex with her there made me feel like a child molester, I said. She said it made her excited.

Not Lao-tzu's Magna Carta, xxxviii - xlv

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what is raised up must rest on its foundation.

March for Me

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A son packs his bag - bottled water, extra masks, and jerky. Mom paces behind him. “Don't go.”

Guns in the House

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Jack would have felt betrayed, and my parents alarmed, had they ever suspected me of playing with Jack's guns, but I found the temptation overwhelming.

Exchange Student

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Sometimes he could feel so small he believed he could fit through the eye of a needle.

War & Peace

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I stand at the edge of the water naked as a newborn. Tiny ripples lick my toes.

THUNDER

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not the sky

At the Jennifer Aniston Intensive Haircare Clinic

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Hunger only makes people hungry, but bad hair can ruin your whole day.

Cathy

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"Merry Christmas, Willie."

Cinderella Reconsiders

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take back all the falderal and friggin' fiddle dee dee take back the mad murmuring of ten minutes ago

First Job

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I thought each day died inside the clock.

Vivian

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When her husband left she was not yet thirty

The Criminal Intern

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"Look, Ted, I'm on a timer. It's really hell here, you can't imagine. And I have a chance to get paroled early, if you do me a solid."

How Light Loves You

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The cataclysm of all those photons/ mad to be a part of you