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The Second Extinction of Chocolate

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Cacao production had always been a tenuous enterprise insofar as commercial cacao tree cultivation had always been limited roughly to the land zones within twenty degrees of the equator north and south.

Repetitions

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The couple sit at an outside table at McDonalds.

Let it Rage Until

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Let it rage. I shall not suppress you. Let your rage speak to you of the sorrow it hides, until your sadness swallows you whole.

The Secondhand Life of Uncle Ray

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Between chapters, he trained my dog, Buster. He taught him to fetch bottle caps, roll over for no reason, and to play dead whenever someone raised their voice

Meeting A Praying Mantis

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A Praying Mantis clover to bright emerald green landed on my sleeve and lingered as I worked in my hay field.

Ron Vara speaks out at last.

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He’s an empty sock

Off The Cuff

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Sometimes words are carved in stone, but you won't find these in this poem

Living In A Novel

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I walked into a novel and sat down on a rock. The language was distressed and full of cyclones and swells. I could smell embalming fluid and folklore. Everywhere I went there were doorknobs, escalators, and clocks. Objects of all genre overflowing with prose. I stood at …

pome sequence from an early spring

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Say say say say say say says our I-I-I-me tunes:

Unconditional Unbroken

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It's house has seen every day and every night From its windows stars are born and die

Second Wave, 1944 (with notes)

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Here were men trying their best to kill other men....

Poof

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Yesterday's protest...

Mrs. Penfield

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Now her right breast was annoying her.

Interview with a Jesus Lizard

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Interviewer: So, you walk on water, right? How is that possible? Jesus Lizard: Well, I only run on water, and upright on my hind legs. Haha, if I tried just walking on water I’d sink quicker than St. Peter!

The Roses

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Does it ever happen to you to wish to talk to somebody? Just somebody. Anyone. A stranger you might meet. Just to talk. About anything, even of the rain. Of the sore you have on your foot, of the daffodil in bloom, of everything and nothing. This lady sat at my…

the sensual tactility of tall buildings

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There's a nice line in M. Tafuri's essay “Architecture and Cities in the United States 1870-1910” concerning the relationship between land values and building costs:“… whereas the simple parceling-up of surface lots is the product of an elementary…

Barred caller

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overheard

Organ Grinder with Singing Whales

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The tree fell into the river of dirt, face first. The man was thinking of his waiting sandwich his wife had made for him last night. Too much green stuff. He wasn't going to eat that. He was going to get a big, juicy burger somewhere with…

Black and White

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Chris and I have an understanding. We've been playing cops and robbers all morning, running around and stirring up shit.