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Milkmen

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I can barely pick out the numbers on the houses

The Concord of This Discord

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-Love is a rushing of blood

Yellow Dining Room (from The New Yorker)

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...you should pick a VERY OLD millionaire. Very old, and NOT VERY WELL...

Jimothy

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Alien meets nicotine

How Would Jesus Drive?

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Contemporary persecution of Christians takes on milder forms of torture like having to explain away something Pat Robertson said, or constantly having to hear about Fred Phelps picketing funerals because he happens to hate homosexuals.

Seeking...

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I'm subconsciously a sucker for guys who are no good for my self-esteem. Or waistline.

HOUSE OF DREAMS

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Something was changing. We could sense it in the circling air. A loss of stillness - and we'd been still for so long.

The Hater

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You look at people and despise them all.

black tulips

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the memories return like they do every year at this time

The Monolingual’s Regret

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Polylinguists lash me with tongues I cannot conjugate

IRON Meditations (thoughts while pressing a clean shirt for work)

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An yet we are all inmates...

Nighttime Dreaming

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"You've fallen out of love with me, is that it? That you'll leave me for another girl, who has bigger boobs and fucks you better than I do."

WARNING: I Brake for Plastic Shopping Bags

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"...innocent butterflies of pollution trapped and entangled,"

October

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For a few/ vivid weeks, deciduous shrubs and trees/ will seem to glow like flames and embers

Wiscasset, Maine

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She bought a dog with short legs to make her own legs look longer.

Meadows

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The whole thing is broken. It's like an egg. I'm not saying this to get you to say something else in the sunny opposite direction of the tattooed scar upon my painted backyard scene. I don't really care. It's only on me. Not on you. I'm glad as…

SNOW ANGEL

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I do this when I think of you. Today we took the first steps towards you're never here.

Say What

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Jane says to Roy, “What are you doing, Roy?”“Fuck off, Jane, I'm reading,” says Roy.“Well you could have just said so.”“I did.”“I mean just without—”“Yeah, well fuck off anyway.”“I've had…

Texas Spleen

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Can we survive our Y chromosome?

Moon Talk

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moonbeams unrecognized language steadies my course

Mountains

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Honesty

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Bill decided he hated his neighbors on a Sunday morning in June.

Arcana Magi Pure Vol.2 - c.4

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Mayumi could see as far as her eyes could, all the buildings hugged by the trees. Roads stretching outward as if reaching for something far away.

The Gruden

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"Who’s John Gruden?"

Assiduity Six

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"Every generation is a new generation, isn't it? What's so different about your generation?"

North of Center

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Paulette lived on the east side on Paulette Avenue. Mama dropped me off when we wanted to play Barbies. Her neighborhood was a little green lily pad in a swamp of blight and disrepair. A ghetto moat ringed around those three fancy blocks like a first line of defense,…

not all scars are the same

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All I wanted to know was: Am I coming close? You could have given me a clue. How was I to know how deep the scar ran? I always thought scars were superficial, but I was young, and willing – what did I know? What would they have done if they had come

March

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The lungs forsake their love of breath. The arms/ resist throwing off the small weight of sheets.

Beauty

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She worked the research desk. Like most ladies before computers and cell-phones she lead a quiet conservative life. She wore dresses, spent time with family and friends...Emma also had been stricken as a child

Kickstand

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Past the pavilion, past the factory, past the underside of the bridge where the surfers jimmy their sloppy fingers over the oil barrels.