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The Tattered

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The snake-like veins began to pulsate angrily, and viciously about his body. Quickly he rose up about the girl. His heart was now pounding rapidly against his chest. Outstretched, were his wings, the width of the balcony, white and decrepit and old, yet s

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.

The Attraction

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The first engine arrived and a fireman heavy with gear stumbled from the side railing.

A Message from Your Local Superintendent Concerning Sex in Our Public Schools

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Such behavior will result in no disciplinary action only: 1) if all blinds are drawn; 2) all doors are locked; and 3) loud groaning is masked by appropriate use of the volume control on the classroom’s closed-circuit TV set.

77 Words About Saturday

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Another Saturday in April. Another set of scars.

You Atop Franz Josef Glacier, Twelve Miles From the Tasman Sea

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58 words

The Untold Story

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I kept a journal for so many years I've forgotten everything I wrote.

Language

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this reaching, this striving to love like it's there becoming something we need.

Criminals

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What about the goons? Those criminals thwarted and left for dead in every action movie for the past thirty years. I'm sure at least a dozen survived the slaughters. I'm sure at least one or two came out if it reformed. This one who quit working for Columbian drug smugglers…

the snake charmer

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God forbid you should break one of the camps precious “rules,” which were more or less like the Ten F'ing Commandments around there.

Having Read the Poems of Matt Dennison

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

Phenomenology

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Someone will labor to keep it alive/ although the body will want but/ to return to random particles

Afterwards

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It takes twelve years for the hot water to run out and your skin has not even begun to prune.

Fin

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She doesn’t answer. Ten minutes slide by unmolested in the anesthesia of cheap wine and resignation, the bouncers blurring and unblurring, the room dimming, quieting, the kaleidoscope of sundown giving way to the gentle sadness of candlelight.

Phantom Energy

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She called it phantom energy. She said it was costing us money every month. A few cents here and there, sure, but it all added up.

Bare Feet

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Bare feet on hardwood floor Twists into circles

Jesus, Zombie

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"Jesus was a zombie?" I ask, shocked.

Clockwork

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At any moment, she'll come outside to pick up the day’s newspaper. He can see it resting beneath the blooming crape myrtle, its plastic wrapper glistening with dew.

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.

MR. WOODCHUCK

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fat furry marmots who play hide and seek

At Night in the Field

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“Ol’ Betty has a nice set of headlights,” he says with a wink as he springs out of the recliner.

Seascape

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

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.

Human Kind Can’t Bear Very Much Reality

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Particles flung by the sun pierce us through, undetected

He Brings Things Closer

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Behind the plastic kitchen, where the special children sometimes sit, a large boy in tight dungarees had grabbed Stephanie's hair in one fist.

Bondage, to the rivers that bind

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Waft­ing wisps of fond­ness twin­kling in time with fairy lights point­ing out lawns in cities

The Committee

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We are prisoners of anticipation.

WOMAN DISPOSED OF

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sex trafficking

Segment from a Documentary Film

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the array of regularly spaced wavering human forms floating upright seems to extend endlessly in all directions.

Bullshit Aeneid

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Of arms and the man...