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On his knees
he divinates diverging lines
with belly laughs he levitates
the rebel spheres into geodes .
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Warren Jeffries left this girlfriend of his named Karen, who was also a poet, and overnight she announced she’d gone back to being a lesbian, she’d so had it with MEN! She did a reading of her new series of Sappho poems at Cody’s Bookstore,
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By the end of the evening, a dark circle of sweat stained the overstretched satin over her dome of a belly. José told her to take it easy. “When people come to a tango bar, they want to think about sex, not babies.”
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It’s been a series of bad clams
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"I always disliked such display of religious fervor. I dislike religious fervor. Period."
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Under no circumstances can you say "fuck" when you're working in a public library.
Especially in the junior room.
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There is no hate in his eyes...
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After seventeen years of struggling to wake up early in the morning, I had managed to wake up on my own. Actually, I think it was because I was unable to sleep that I was up so early. I had laid on the bed all night, staring at the dark ceiling, taking in every…
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“You should've let him drown,” she once told me. Doesn't she see that I did? I'll let her drown, too.
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We received the news unexpectedly. The suspicion was true. The nausea and fatigue were caused by the honor of your presence in our lives. We had waited for you for years. We had prayed endlessly for the universe to bless us with your gift; with you as our gift. And…
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can they approve, our/gods in our wallets? only/when we tell them to.
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If they don’t cover consequences in your gifted and talented program, you may care to research it.
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I crave the confines of the convent
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In a time of drought,/
the sound of rain is sweet/
and joyful music.
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the urgent, naked glow of opportunity
or
the dim fluorescent nuisance of an object out of reach
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you and i exist
outside of the chaos and noise
entwined in eternal embrace
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A bum leaves his shopping cart
in the middle of the intersection
at 7th Ave and Perry St
and walks away
leaving everything behind
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I know this: the sky is vast here//
and the sun unforgiving/
to any architecture not the best
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and the moon shines on like a silver dollar
and coyotes in the desert scream and holler
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I began to feed him. All the things I could think of - horror movies, cheese, salt, pickles, chilli. Vitamin B6 tablets washed down with warm milk. Anything I could do to grow little nightmares for my new pet.
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I met a girl so sweet, So sweet that she could Break your heart No girl, no one should Be so sweet So sweet that she melts My depression Increase my anxiety No one should be so sweet More like a little girl Than her 25 years If…
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Nor woke, as always, to a dark room smelling of the lavender she kept in little bottles to perfume the otherwise stank air. Outside, she could still see the edge of the moon hanging there like a lopsided smile. The early summer wind blew in and stirred the faded floral…
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She tells me I have to face the fact that I have the heart of the Tin Man. I know the story. He had none. She is very sensitive and I have to measure my remarks because words bruise her so easily. So, I…
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Five o’clock, and Madame choosing her evening legs. Elizabeth assisting. Elizabeth will continue to assist until midnight, despite the chaos, at which point the authorities will tell her such assistance is no longer necessary.
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Slept on a chair last night in the Springfield, Mass., bus terminal. It was March, and a dude in shorts asked: "Yo, you smoke trees?" I said, "Sure. Who doesn't?" He said, "You buyin'?" I said, "Nope, I'm going out of the country." He smiled and said, "Alright." He started…
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If it weren't for the different lengths of dock, I would think the river just goes past me. Maybe it does, and the banks move too. Orderly where the clouds are random. I have cormorants, passengers, and salmon. They catch each other. They make my crew money. When did my…
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He leans against the truck, the sun sinking on the day, shadows inching down the side of the house, yawning towards the horizon.
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