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No Alternative

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Roy and Ray

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Roy Carver owned a big tire retreading outfit over on the Mississippi.

55 words #8

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Weight of faithlessness... Mist Of bodily Existence Grave expectations for the future

31 & 32

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Many hours to make a brick: many bricks to make a curve.

To My Children, With Apologies

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My apologies also for those crowded roads you and your families have to drive on. My generation would have built more public transportation but, in all honesty, we just didn't give a damn.

Things to Do while Waiting for the Toaster

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For you have waited. And waited and waited. And soon your slice of bread will be ready.

Four Quarters for a Dollar Moon

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There's a large tunnel that runs under my house. I can only estimate but it's not deep below the ground and that's what worries me.

Muse

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This liberated you/ to grind me hard/ on the dance floor

Joking

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I don't care much for Joking, which is not to say that I don't care at all for Joking, just that I don't care much. I would say, if I had to say, that I care for Joking about as much as I care for a cousin, not a close cousin, one I have a genuine frien

Honeymoon Bike Ride

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On my honeymoon, we went upstate to the Catskill Mountains.

The White Dogs Of West Emerald Street

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I wondered if Mr. Slane even knew/ how many dogs he owned

Why I Cannot be your Facebook Friend

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The TV projects from an insect arm. It has the face of my ex-husband, smiling and void. I like to set small fires and inhale them.

Win Some, Lose Some

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Afterward, at the motel, I asked her why she liked sex so much, and she said she liked the taste.

Song for Cathy to Sing

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The snap of a broken heart is exactly One second longer than this poem is going To be when it finishes up being said . The snap Of a broken heart is unlike anything that Cartwheels out of sync with the rest of Us truly lucky ones. The broken snap of a …

Tiger Milk (Part 4--the last act.)

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"In the grave my lips will still be moving."

Not Drowning

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You were a buoy.

Love

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My grandmother is magnificently breasted in her floor-length nightgown.

THE SONGBIRD AND ME

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“Tell me again,” you whisper softly, “about the songbird.”

The Bedbugs

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Cockroaches in bed was the last straw. Alicia was sure she’d swallowed one in the middle of the night . . .

Northeast of Eden (Memoir; Editor: Charlotte Curtis)

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Snakes have no eyelids, no hips, no lobby in Washington (some creatures do!) and little support at home.

Isn't It Funny How Some People Don't Think They're Contemptibly Stupid?

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Pet Sitter

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We didn't know him from Adam...

How it all started

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I heard this story from my grandmother who heard it from her grandmother who heard it from an uncle, who was a monkey.

Brink of Extinction_Chapter One

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The year is 2110. The earth is no longer habitual for human beings. The oceans are gone, the sky is red and radiated and the last vestiges of human civilian are located within the confines of massive barrier cities. For a century mankind has been at war w

For My F-Fellow St-Stutterers

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Funny, funny stuff. She'll be here all week--be sure and tip your speech therapist!

Foundations

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King's splendid stronghold Pressing down the earth below Broken by the grass

Hell and back...

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Sarge had done this before. Not with this many rookies and not on a one-way trip. This was a suicide mission. The boys didn't know it, but he did. They weren't coming back. Hell, they couldn't come back

Death

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fate is an illusion we use to ease the terror of our mortality

check-out at the super saver center

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There is truth you can’t escape or say any other way and expect it still to be truth.

Over Medium

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He did it in front of the waiter and everything.