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I was quite alone in this small room with the tarp and the dying fire.
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IN nature, it's hard to find a straight line. Stand on a beach. Look out to sea. There out far you might think you see a line where the sky comes down to join. Where two fields of blue meet. But where you're not quite sure for the line is a blur there. You…
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The Assistant is lost again in a grid city. Again she feels disconnected from the world. Where she is the sound has been switched off.
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Had this been a film, I’d have seen you at once. Extreme close-up: my finger on the green button that opens the door to the park. Long shot: my leaving my bike at the entrance. Slow shot: my walking down the narrow stone path.
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an undercurrent of fear is running through my community
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I smoked my cigarro under his watchful eye. We were never able to make too much conversation even when I was teaching him at Educenter. Now that David had opened his own school, Evert had come to learn with him because it was much more affordable, but he
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168322
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my mouth is open, ready to bite your tiny toes
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There are 1.45 million readers
of poetry in the US and
2.9 million poets. The odds
of an audience are bad.
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168385
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Not believing enough in God he was made unfortunate. Neither cursed nor damned; merely little things. Missing rides, running out of toilet paper, showing up late. Until, suspecting someone he had overlooked, he chose a God. The wrong One it transpired. Things…
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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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168374
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Once again there's too much to handle and
no space to process
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168342
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It's 6:45 a.m. A gritty, mundane sort of magic pervades the air at "Valentine’s" in the Hamilton Hotel.
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Slipshod shoes were the first sign of a meltdown. Sometimes she could see it coming. A prickly gentleman washing his clothes on a Thursday afternoon. One week he’s fine. Nothing wrong with owning a sour face. The next Thursday, his shoes don’t match.
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I got an email notification that your relationship status had changed to Single...
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Everybody called her The Crier because from time to time we would hear her crying.
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Every Monday you brought your Sunday finest to the bus stop...
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“Gorgonzolla!” The remnant croaked, his eyes wild as he thrust an open hand in Jaffron's direction. A burst of energy tilted Jaffron's pod on its axis and sent it hurtling backwards...
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168333
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A small bar of glycerin soap floated in the sink full of bloody water . . .
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168310
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Floating along the ebbs of the ocean,toward the horizon, where time has no say,an end that will never be reached.
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"Thanks for the wild sex--let me know if you have any problems with the lint trap."
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When I was young and self-born in religion my aunts, uninterested in being washed in the Blood of Christ, called me Preacher Boy. I didn't pay them any attention. It was fine by me, I said, if they wanted to sit around and paint their toenails . . .
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168200
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And it's a tough thing
to become a father,
a contradiction;
guiding a child to avoid the things
that you know about so well.
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forced to submit/
to reasonableness//
and universal healthcare.
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168222
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Why yes I began writing this, my bildungsroman, Who is Mitsy Jackson, in spring, 1974 or thereabouts, and thank you so much for asking.
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168252
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Send me a secret story in a song just for me
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1682117
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Except with the language I was born to./
Occasionally, with painters and collagists-//
dead now, typically- who can’t voice/
opposition to my misappropriations.
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168210
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I was shooting baskets in the driveway when the Mexican kid delivered the groceries. He drove in fast and loud . . .
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1682102
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And I don't know how long it will be until she comes outside and figures it all out.
Figures me out.
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168261
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I do not know what zinzins is, what a zinzins is, who zinzins is.
I do not want to know
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