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The Jaws of Life

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You’ve known her since grade school and even though you’ve never copped a feel, it gave you a strange chill when you heard boys talking about her breasts, pressing against madras or chamois with some devilish life force, or how one day she’ll fuck l

Divorcing Delia

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I held her hand through two divorces, I warned her that gorgeous Geoffrey was homosexual when she was oblivious, and I fed her children when she was off at rehab (four times before it 'took').

Abject Horror of Objects (ELECTRIC DELIRIUM 1.8)

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Rosey streaks through the city, dragging a flooded umbrella.

Literate Reply

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an oven mitt in Dachau

On the Bench (Matthew III)

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turn your face

Arcana Magi Memorial Vol.3 - c.2

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Sora rubbed her neck as Azure gave her attention. She did not know where to begin, thinking about what to say first.

Not Calculable

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saw the world was a mess I did nothing about it, poured myself some apple juice

Combinatorics

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“I'm thinking about math class,” she said. “The solution to three factorial.” “Easy,” Leo said.

Things I Learned But No Longer Believe

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Shakespeare had red hair / Van Gogh never painted a nude

Mercury Unbound - 7

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a song jolts my memory . . .

When To Wear Mascara

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it's time for the cold, antiseptic cloth to briskly remove the evidence.

Facebook

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I got an email notification that your relationship status had changed to Single...

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…

The King's Snit

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Political doggerel.

Silver Spring to Phoenix

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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…

SNOWSTORM

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long lines, short words

Her

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It's time, more than anything

A Conversation With a Ghost

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This must never get out in the press, for it would cause widespread panic. The priests would surround my house, not to mention the police and possibly the army. Castor Desayuno has come back from the dead!

Gravity as Destiny

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Falling// is something that comes quite naturally/ to puffed up things. Like the soufflé

Grandma (My Mother) At Christmas

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A tanka/haiku poem about grandma getting run over by a reindeer.

An Unheeded Return

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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.

6.0 in Eureka

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"Shit," said the Charge Nurse. "Not again."

The Sleep of Trees (Three Parables), part 3

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in a puddle of water, the butterfly rests on a stone

Arcana Magi Memorial Vol.3 - c.3

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Sora collapsed on the wall to Azure’s squeals. She felt her arm lifted up and placed around Azure’s shoulder.

The Land Collector

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He liked owning acreage.

A Beggar's Welcome

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. . . it's all we ever want -- the holding.

Not Lao-tzu's Magna Carta, lv - lxiii

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facts of matters are not as they seem,/hour by hour crafty comments creep in,/another hour and "the good" is a horror:/ our human blindness is older than our sight.

Beelzebub

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The jewels were dragonflies, buzzing lazily, Beelzebub’s hair a golden meadow.

RINSE AND OXIDATION

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...listening to the ache of errs our mouths had become.

Crack in the Cosmos

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There’s a crack in the cosmos, and pink is leaking through. There’s a crack in the cosmos, fix the sink, the toilet leak. There are many cracks in the cosmos, numerous. This is how time escapes. Good grief, they’re going to suck the cream