1719 10 9
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Polylinguists lash me
with tongues I cannot conjugate
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171952
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This is Peter’s office. The room is small, and the wood paneling is painted white. Light colors, Peter has been told, make a room appear larger.
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171944
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The figure eight will fall on its side. Become infinity.
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171953
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"Bortne! Bortne! Shushort!" she exclaims, shooting her hands over her wobbly head in pleasure, causing it to again pop off. This time, it's a three story drop from a balcony.
Terrified, he yells "Sneeeeew nuuuu! Oh nee padoooo!"
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171955
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awoke in confusion, fear and hurt never seen before that day a year past
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1719107
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In her blanched beauty, seated in a silver deck chair, with complacent socialist ways
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171955
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Vibrations of a cavern a mile beneath silver willows.At two in the morning beyond the Sheratona lumination of pollution intercedes realism.Cardinals and doves develop their melodyprogressively caught in beat/heart echoes,as with spelunker canaries fluting noxious gasa small…
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1719167
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It's time, more than anything
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171900
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As airplanes fly low over her children playing in the kiddie pool on the front lawn, Maureen learns something else about her father's new house that lies in the flight path of an international airport.
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171975
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Perhaps you have heard the rumors of big money in poetry
Maybe that’s why everybody is writing it these days
Even Emily Dickinson must have heard these rumors
Myself, I suspected as much 50 years ago
And started early to accumulate my hoard of poe
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171900
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This had the unintentional effect of me picturing her in a tight white top and tiny orange shorts. From up close like this, I had clearly misjudged her earlier. She could definitely be more than the quirky best friend in my movie.
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171965
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It was the sodabottle glasses that scared Entro the most. Stubbled with scratches, taped with residual angst and piercing his soul with contempt he’d seen only on the National Geographic Focus Antarctica series - as Seals readied to mangle for Alpha bragg
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171887
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graves left or graves lost, into silence death sinks:/it's leaving the living that leaves us such pain.
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171865
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One of the poems in my collection, One Day Tells its Tale to Another, published December 16, 2012. Available on Amazon. My first book!
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1718125
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I walked along the beach today, and there I saw them all; including the latest lost: little Tiven, Tommy, Michaela & my Paul. Grandma painted at her easel, set upon the dune. Uncle Eddie bent in half, laughing like a loon, Oliver growled…
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17181110
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44 miles out
the gauntlet of Red River pines
cast shadows pointing north.
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171844
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It was like watching one of those vintage eighteen-frames-per-second films of someone trying to open a stuck umbrella.
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171897
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I remember meeting you many years later.
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171800
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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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171833
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eleven o'clock spills
despair all over
our bedspread
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171811
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171830
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Chapter one I was sitting in the doctor's office. For weeks, my nerves had been on edge, and I had been feeling like he was going to have a nervous breakdown. I needed the help of a professional. It was hard for me to admit this. I was taught that a man handled…
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171733
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two roses her eyes
aqua-blue
no, blue-green
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17171611
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What a beautiful Thing / Urine is
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171786
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remembering Cahokia, a place we rent near the water's edge, for we dare not enter
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171710
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“Well” I say. “What do you think about the dilemma of a guy who’s tortured by a history of incest and bondage?”
“Depends” Says Al. “On who was cested and who was bonded.
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17172011
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The nearsighted world/
puts on its lenses
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1717105
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as I imagine only you canyou're the ocean on fire before anyone else hasbroken that ancient seal, or simply taken the first icy plunge.You can eatall the bitterfruit there is, but that stilldoesn't make theworld a more hatefulplace. Only people…
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171765
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go ahead
stick one more morsel
into that piehole
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1717128
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fetal position can make a man seem small. harmless. like the child your womb won't carry...
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