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collars of obedience /
discarded in the pyre /
with draft cards and bras
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(the vast preponderance of dark matter and dark energy discernible in these latter days begins to suggest just how dark the humor of existence is) . . .
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Funny, funny stuff. She'll be here all week--be sure and tip your speech therapist!
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I can't find my way back to the library. I've heard of this happening, that if you leave even for just one day and for a very good reason, as good a reason as mine, you may not find your way back. Now why should this be so? I do not understand this library. It houses…
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For years I watched behind the glass
While merry parties purpled past
But now the world’s a Solemn Mass
And I can only think.
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I cut myself. Often. The bloodslice like thin lips parted/in prayer.
life’s color drained to ashen/as the old world spins, pirouettes/like a circus dog on the back/of a galloping horse.
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You're a good dog, she whispered to him, a good brave dog. Her face was tight with soap.
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There is truth you can’t escape or say any other way and expect it still to be truth.
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This morning as I stepped out of the shower I was hit with a panicked fit in which it became urgent that I rid my flesh of each drop of water that burdened it. Not quite like the feeling of being…
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under your skin the moon is alive
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“Oh yeah?" I said to Stendhal. "I found six references to women's eyebrows in Travels in the South of France. That's all you think about!”
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We love the sparkling, speckless, spotless, spic-n-span, sanitary.
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Whenever trees or limbs fell in isolate forests—well, no narrators were ever to be found, not even beneath the larger tree trunks or under the fallen limbs.
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The most beautiful possible thing is to deprive all places of their meanings.
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For you have waited. And waited and waited. And soon your slice of bread will be ready.
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She took a deep breath. Last night, she said, Who was the woman?
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“So, do you still think I'm hot? I mean, do you think men still find me attractive?” Jenny asks. This is never a good question to answer, much less entertain. I know this as surely as I know anything. Still, let's break it down. I am married. Jenny is…
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I did do one nice thing for you
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With small and fleshy hands/
I scratch at enigmatic stones,
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Either it was rescue--if the customer was alive to be found--or recovery, the term for bringing out the dead.
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Each step you take on the pitchEach mile driven downEach closed exit of highway Blocked avenues of importanceBoarded up HammeredNailed shutPeople and places and things You can't get to anymoreThe knife and the needle The black and the…
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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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In the darkness, as I awaken, an orange glowing 3:45 greets me . . .
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The strawberries remind me of you,Fat and fleshy,Pimple-dimpled.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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I’m not dog-like in any sexy manner, like a Wolf Man who kills livestock and lurks in the shadows on the outer fringes of society, mouth bloodied at the tips, and waking up as a fully functioning human naked in some field. Instead, I lurk among rows of cu
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I was talking to this famous female artist
at the reception, (as if I knew anything,)
“If you want to be taken as a serious artist now,
you have to have one long serious eyebrow.”
There was no reaction. So, I said:
“Also, you should kn
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Hissing through the opening, the spirits have no place.
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If you can imagine a ghost taking a shower then you can imagine the kind of emotion I have in mind.
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