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One summer night, as I walked alone down the cracked sidewalk of Kentucky underneath a canopy of maples where the moonlight fell through branches and lit my path with uneven lines I wondered: where does the residue of lust and desire go when everything you want to…
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She wakes up with rosemary.
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I could trust that most nights I would drop off to sleep at around midnight and shortly thereafter dream an “us dream”, a how we were dream, a sensing of our bodies undulating, then moving faster, moving with the waves of a special music only we could hear, with…
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The next time I see you, I’m going to pretend you’re a stranger, and that I’m meeting you for the first time.
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A procession of our somber youth—
stoned and stunned and
broken beyond repair—viewed
the boy carved of putty.
The mortician painted him
stuffed him, presented him
to us, the semi-living.
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a poem about things exploding/burning down/scattering for miles.
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I had enough judgment, anger and vengefulness from the people around me in the steel town of Pueblo, Colorado, where I was growing up. I didn’t need more from my God.
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Every morning, Wilma's husband Richard would cross the street and visit with a neighbor, always after the neighbor's husband left for work. Wilma was a loner, never bothered with neighbors. She enjoyed sitting on her patio in her lounge chair,…
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He'd hung above her head for months.
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"On the podium at Pride, he owned that he'd loved taking his children to playgroup as he got to ogle all the breast-feeding mothers. "
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Dana Weinstein, whose pet dog died last year, has spent nearly $50,000 over the last six months to clone her precious Chinese pug, Yu, so she could have 'Yu Too'."It's definitely not for most people," said Dana about her extreme measures to recreate her pet. "No other dog…
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On an overcast and humid day in August, Jesus—with Dad’s permission, of course—decided to make his grand return.
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Sometimes one person's shelter is another person's storm.
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Our afterlife depends upon//
what interesting shape
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We lie sleepless at night, enraged,/
and finger the keyboard
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Alysia raised the staff over the huddle and together everyone created a barrier. The wind blew past them and the grey mist surrounded them.
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i thirst always
for that poetic mouthful
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"...easier to get milk from a male tiger than mercy from him."
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Zinvushka Zokolovskaya and I first met at the local botanical garden.
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In what appears to have been a coordinated, coast-to-coast attack, country clubs across America were attacked last night with firebombs and heavy contaminations of herbicides.
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no more trying to keep / the peace, no more trying / to keep every person happy. / Just this: no more.
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I know you,
ladies and gentlemen
We see the near future
through you
Your factual face
as you sit indoors
Youthless
In your ordinary chair
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When I got that brain tumor I hallucinated this crazy doctor. Dr. Doug. He came into my…
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Light slunk in from under a door, but just a sliver.
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Holy shit, man, look at that!” Mike's pimply face melts into drooling bliss. His dad had stopped in this whacko town on the way to our campsite, muttered something about angry lesbians, and disappeared. Rick and I follow Mike's dumbstruck gaze to a shop…
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The pristine Hudson's/waters dance in the dark of/the East River's rinse.
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Girl with glasses and
skinny fingers
playing with wires
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Why flash?because the moments, the moments, they pass in flashes of brilliancethat shudder, death glow alightand nothing makes sense beyond nowand nothing will help me but meand I am not even enoughnot my thoughts or your nod of assentor even the deep sigh of…
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Some things are meant to be repeated
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if it were a child/ it would be in first grade this year
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