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“Imagine a Shakespearean scholar coming upon an undiscovered work by the Bard. That’s how thrilling this is."
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She drinks a chocolate martini. I fold myself up and slide into her pocket.
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Something about shadows and last time and driving.
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Rosey streaks through the city, dragging a flooded umbrella.
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Back in the sixties, I chanced upon a list of books. That’s right. Sifting a black garbage bin, I found the long lost canon. Seizing the moment, I snatched the list, and cradled it in my palms. I felt proud and patriotic for saving such a noble list f
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"...innocent butterflies of pollution
trapped and entangled,"
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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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I blame the fucking mosquito net.
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I want to tell you things you do not know.
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I want you closeI want to feel youinside me,softening me untilmy borders are blurredand I'm hardly breathing,my heart swellingso big itbrings me to my knees,I want to know thepain of losing youeach time youclose your eyes andgo to sleep anddream of someone else,I want to…
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I have never seen doubt on the face of a Roman general,' he said, ‘but when you looked at me and said “I know”…that was a certainty I'd never encontered. You have crossed the Acheron twice.'
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He sees how he could release the duck, imagines it winging low over the water to where the others have made it safely.
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That’s true, you know, what they said about the drummer and spontaneous combustion.
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The clarinet and the accordion are brothers, I see. Big, fat men with curly, klezmer hair.
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a song jolts my memory . . .
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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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You were gone, long gone, and I could no longer smell your scent as I walked through the empty house. I couldn't bring myself to unpack the boxes, and they lurked like a forest of overgrown drab Legos.
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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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"Nice one, sir," the toilet said.
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The days cut off by damp chill with every thought a different variety of protection.
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Foolish boy, you chose
your parents poorly-
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...the fatal bleeding-out of the love receptors. They call it “Juliet's Tears.”
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Let’s say you know so little about me. Like whose idea of a joke to name me Hideo for excellent male. Or why I hang out at triangle Park, ogling expatriates or crusty punks.
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I haven’t read many of them, these poets
that they speak of – Whitman and his Leaves
Of Grass, Mary Oliver and her wild life
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What's that snitch doin' here?
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The jewels were dragonflies, buzzing lazily, Beelzebub’s hair a golden meadow.
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Twenty-two tornadoes tore through Toronto, spiraling steel and stone to the streets where she stood, texting her best friend.
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