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The Outlaws

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"So, what do you do for fun around here? I mean, other than each other?" Carlo's smirk broke into full-fledged laughter; Yuri feigned shock. Iris leaned forward and breathed into Bronte's ear: "We misbehave."

Express

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Once, asked what time it was, M. replied, "Eternity."

M Tractor

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If I saw a little old man out there, a fellow with a hunched up back, I shouldn't be afraid.

Residual

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Our afterlife depends upon// what interesting shape

Restaurant Rondo

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Before she flushes the toilet the world is spinning.

The Hangman's Poor Gift

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of placing the rope just so; of settling the veil with care --

Like Virgos

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-- All the guys who hit on me are Virgos. -- Like Gary? -- Like Gary. -- How could Gary be a Virgo? Look what he did with his hydrangeas.

The Scream

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Coagulating sky, a turbulentheave of orange, blood red,hell's fire smeared —below, tar seas bulgeat the seams, engulfing ships.Pier-bound she streaksand wails as the seaswells and threatens to claim —, corpse head, baldeyes, her death robescling to…

Explaining To A Dog

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My wife tells me/your dog has vomited/ on the carpet AGAIN!

Unknown to Me

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I don’t want to debate polemics while I’m sweaty and naked. I just want my hair cut.

Tchotchkes

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Each little token is the world/ as you knew it at each time and place

The Retreat

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This time, he didn’t admire the fish for very long. He was close to shore and tossed it up on the rocks. Before the fish could flop its way back to the water, Quentin lobbed a broad stone at its head.

Honeycomb

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No bustling inside No extruded amber Wings onyx straight jackets A low hum of displeasure.

Learning to Love Your Permanent Stillness

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["GET UP, GET GET, GET DOWN ... 9-11'S A JOKE IN *your* TOWN!"]

Lives and their rivers

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The pristine Hudson's/waters dance in the dark of/the East River's rinse.

that's what sea said

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i thirst always for that poetic mouthful

Coleridge on Urine

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What a beautiful Thing / Urine is

Quicksand

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God damn you women get me all / twisted up thinking oohrahrah and lala

Puppy Love

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That was the summer that Christine Nelson owned me. It felt like catching the flu. I had it bad. I was about to turn seven, and it was my first time, and it was bad. A love like that, I don’t know, it’s not a love supreme. It wasn’t completely cru

Strawberries

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The strawberries remind me of you,Fat and fleshy,Pimple-dimpled.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Babes in the Bush

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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…

Big Legs

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Her body: normal as a body, a baby’s body: skin and eyes.

The Next Landscape

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The day came shyly up to me like a rolling orange thing. Perhaps of alien origin, but not if the Buddha of our foolish hopeless dreamer inside has anything to say about it. It said, pick me up. I did. It looked like forever on the inviting horizon with trees as…

Too Late

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He brought me kisses from New York.

Picture Window

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You call your wife. “Do you see what I see?” you ask.

The Nature of Things

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She’s not coming today. She didn’t come yesterday either.

Preparation

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We may not be capable of even trying to appreciate the fact of mortality until we are somewhat older—let's say 18 years old. But, from the age of 18 until we die—and die we will; we know that—we have the opportunity to spend some time thinking abou

A Girl and Her Trees

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The trees would answer with a creak and a crackle. Fall was near, a rotten apple.

Grunion Fishing

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As spilled on a sandy Corona del Mar beach/both in moonlight and starlight so lovely/and strangely sad as if receding still

Beneath the Light of an Exploding City

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Under the darkness of their new city. The heave and moan of structures as they breathed and pulsed. Under the darkness of this city, under the hum of their florescent bulbs and the tumbling rattle of motorcars, the wheeze of their machines and the clank o