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In the dream Yesler rolled, a broad avenue made of fine yellow dust, from Third down toward Second, and I made my way in the silence and bright morning air. To my left on the corner of Second stood the old Mocambo cafe and lounge, home to drag…
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I knew nothing about the letter at first. When I came in that morning and smiled and said good morning, it was a genuine smile and a heartfelt good morning. But the letter, which had arrived the previous afternoon, was already doing its corrosive work of
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176900
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If you were the ozone,
I’d want to leave you gaping.
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"...you are a freak of nature..."
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We lay in what we have made, minute fleshy bullets in the target we have made.
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didn't know how to do it
just tried to squeeze on the teats
didn't know I had to grab up on the udder and pull
Unca Ole laughed
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I think I remember now why people write poetry.
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Let’s play a game. I’m thinking of a word.
Do we have to?
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San Bruno avenue, six shops in eight blocks. Those Vietnamese ladies thrive on the pedicure trade.
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Back when they were younger, David was always gushing about every little thing in his head, and his openness appealed to her as much as his muscular frame did. But after that year they spent apart, he was always ... smiling. Smiling and vague.
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When he suggested to her that they make a sex tape, because that’s what everyone was doing, she wasn’t really surprised. And there was a truly repugnant part of it that fit in with her desire for moral self-flagellation.
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Sharpie marked, Free Still Works
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A wrinkled man lie atop an ivory-clad mattress, matched sheets covered his body, matched hair covered his head.
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Falling Water almost fell./
12 million dollars later//
it will splay itself a little longer
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They rise up, a sullen, sorrowful/
army of reproach, staring,//
stone-faced but eyed with fire.
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You're stupid drunk. And not feeling so good. You know you should stop doing this. But what else is there to do, especially since your brother went in? And now Roberto's gone to pick up his lady and left you alone, empty. Couldn't even drive you home. You don't…
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Is it you with that fucking gold and platinum yacht?!?
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Entering that darkroom is like slipping through the barrel of a rifle.
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“You know who Neil Peart looks like?” Gram said, ignoring Aaron's outburst.
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Kitchen.
sandwich.
wife.
daughter.
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The fish would need a name, but she didn’t know how to tell if it was a boy or a girl. Did fish have penises?
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But I still don't have my underwear in the right place.
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What she didn't tell me was that her brother Carl got fried during an electrical storm.
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He didn't hide it. He told her he was a mortician when he called. He had responded to her ad in the Lonely Hearts section of the newspaper.
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Back in the sixties, I chanced upon a list of books. That’s right. Sifting a black garbage bin, I found the long lost canon. Seizing the moment, I snatched the list, and cradled it in my palms. I felt proud and patriotic for saving such a noble list f
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It could be fun,/
with the guns, explosives, Molotov/
Cocktails and all,
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She looks exactly like my sister, though I do not have a sister.
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Just take the mountain curves
as tightly to the inside and
as fast as surface conditions permit
and the road’s edge
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My fingers are shining
in the underwater afterlife of memory
searching for the nipple-sized mollusks
searching for the solid nature of things
left over from having lived a life
at all
That new rain smell, specifically
I remember that,
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