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The Goldsmith's Anniversary

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He searched for something deserving of the word “bestowed,” something so rare as to horrify the clerics of ordinariness.

The Cruelest Man

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He was arrested for a horrible crime. It took more than three weeks to identify the body. The newspapers were vague so as not to terrify anyone. He hung his head low as he pled guilty.

Deerhead Puppets in the Forest

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A spark is a gouged word: stewed to annihilate, scrambled, botched in a pot to dry. Lead us to the quiver, let us tremble. Noon, we paw nails under rugs, run fingertips over books, rip cupboards from hinges and spiral open the machine, for the creature is near the roof or…

Seven Things I Learned About David Letterman from Jason Zinoman's "Letterman: The Last Giant of Late Night."

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Never touch David Letterman's neck!

Pretty

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Is it victory or madness

Cymbals

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On stage, students from the junior college join children from the community to speak and sing in American-French accents. They are timid, heart-broken, in love, rebellious, faithful, resigned to their fates—and all in the matter of a few short hours.

Cat People #22

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When Kat returned home from The East Street Wars, she learned that her epileptic lover, White Dog, died from madness

Office M

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It is a sunny day in the autumn of the patriarch.

The Bird

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We lived on the edge of a tiny Iowa town, and picked corn fields were steps away.

C.S.I. #14

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I had dreams of being permeated with the heat of Caramelized sisters. A declawed cat kept creeping along my apartment walls.

Having Read the Poems of Matt Dennison

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

25 Cents at a Time

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He never bothered converting the tip money he pocketed at the Imperial Street 24 hour car wash as his world was replete with 25 cent transactions, making quarters the perfect coin for his realm.

If we thought that love was gone

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If we thought that love was gone that out of sweetness none remained

Before My Change Jar Went Missing

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These are the small miracles we witness from my barrio stoop.

I used to think the sun was the moon

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I imagined the sun to be the moon and discovered it was not on a road trip in California where I noticed the sun on one side and the moon on the other.

Getting Sideways On Douglas

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Under the dirty orange glow of sodium streetlights, the glistening pavement looks slick, but it’s only just wet. The mid-November temperature is cool—quite mild, actually, for this late time of year—still hovering in the upper 30s—so far posing only the

RT @dadaism #amwriting

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How much do book editors earn? Peacock Love. (aww…)

Poems I posted on social media, late night, when I was drunk.

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my God, I have no time, no time

The Men Who Forgot Math and Poetry

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"They treat us like shit," the mathematician said. "They think they can just take us and electrocute us and drown us."

The Signal

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I take the plastic off of the last videotape and stick it in the VCR. I make sure the channel is on 6. Still a commercial. I get my notebook, turn it to the next page and write today's date on top. I get ready. I don't really like the back and forth banter the other news…

Hexagon

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

Wince

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Lately he's been wanting to write about love...

Seascape

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They had been wintering on the Cape under gunmetal skies...

THUNDER

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not the sky

Bullshit Aeneid

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Of arms and the man...

Wall-to-Wall Bullshit (or, 'The Unauthorized Autobiography of Smiley McGrouchpants Jr. Esq. III')

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"I can't believe my 'best friend' and my 'girlfriend' would actually start dating if I authorized and coordinated repeated threesomes for us!" Robert Eww was saying, holding aloft a dagger and book, with an olive wreath around his head.

Hyena Spit The Poem

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Snake Walk

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The Viper turns so quickly that Father's grabbing hand now faces its head instead of its tail.

Human Kind Can’t Bear Very Much Reality

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Particles flung by the sun pierce us through, undetected

Sorrows Know How to Swim

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That night he dreamed about a duel with toothbrushes....