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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…
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Before the saw came my fist through the wall. Now I kneel on the crumbled drywall in my son's closet holding a flashlight, peering into the hole at the plumbing parts I'm supposed to replace. On the other side of the wall the bathtub faucet drips. It is my second…
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Under nervously flickering fluorescent lights / your name will grow / fed by the tongues of Those Who Never Leave
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He died a printer finding late/
after so much selling himself selling/
a craft that pleased and paid enough
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I keep encouraging him to write stories not poems, but I think he enjoys writing things that don’t fit together. Things that stumble.
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As he brushes his shoulders against other people's shoulders until he almost has no shoulders –
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He lost his patience and began ranting and raving, angry that he had to come home every night and feel like he was being smothered by a pillow. “I can’t make it stop,” she said. “I can’t make myself stop feeling this way.”
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I can confirm nothing/
but impressions of the world//
that appear beyond my/
body’s reach.
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The Lake I. When the weather was nice, the fisherman and his girl spread a blanket over the shore's rough sand and watched the cargo ships cleave their way to the…
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...the loving and very painful hurt of our daily sustenance
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In the cicada's cry No sign can foretell How soon it must dieBasho "Hear the locusts?" The woman lifts the child's head. "Hear em, baby?" The child looks blankly in the…
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You can use your shoelaces or an Ace bandage. Loop a belt around your neck and toss the loose end over a shower curtain or closet pole. Pull. Try to lift yourself off the ground.
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“What was that about?” Keiko asked as she gingerly separated the lily from the wrapping and the baby's breath and examined the flower. Keiko unbound the lily and noticed that the stem seemed strong. The flower no longer needed the support of the wire, and
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He awoke with a start. This was not the first time he did so. He couldn't afford these occasional bouts of sleep. And certainly not in the land of the Tsantsa hunters.
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the world slips under the waves
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It's because poetry would not do
because the fireflies were alive that night, aflame
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My only celebrity anecdote involves seeing Barbara Bush in the back of the Presidential limo ...
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On the television, a round woman sits amongst the mannequins. She wears a headband. She describes some awesome jewelry.
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Reality winks at us then scampers off
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You lose her. In the vortex of guttered water, her tangled hair entwines. Tornado-like. Her body spinning boisterously at its core. Her name: Izra—the wooden doll with black pebbled eyes. …
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[SOME PEOPLE ARE BETTER THAN OTHERS.]
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Every day is exactly the same.
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my space heater throws a pale orange light
my white candles flicker in the middle of the night
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That black hole isn't really a hole.
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Where you used to exist, there will only be spaces.
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What purpose other than misery/
can cancer serve? And Parkinson's,/
AIDS, and STDs?
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I am reaching out at you, to you from the nest. From the nest, please come to the nest, to see me and to hear my life story. From the nest I go, and then I arrive at the nest, suddenly, just in time to be…
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”My goodness how that child nurses hope,” Edward’s Grandad would often say, “were it not for her where indeed would this family be?”
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Altodog was dressed in filthy chef’s trousers and a long-sleeved purple dress shirt, somewhat dignified by a tattered black vest.
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Yankees call them daffodils.
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