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skin cancer
walks along Zuma beach
at noon
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I wonder how many crumbs
he can drop to make a cookie,
whole, so I can relax a little
and throw out the self help books
about how I'm not right in
the motherfucking head,
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“There goes that slut Kerri Stanton,” the immense woman behind the counter chuckled to her patron. “Who the hell does she think she is?”
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Published in Exquisite CorpseI…
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If I should wake/
before I die,/
just shoot me through/
the one good eye.
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That was the summer that Christine Nelson owned me.
It felt like catching the flu. I had it bad. I was about to turn seven, and it was my first time, and it was bad. A love like that, I don’t know, it’s not a love supreme. It wasn’t completely cru
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1502 9 5
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A spire
that had stood one hundred and forty years
fell in
a single second of the blackest day.
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Under the darkness of their new city. The heave and moan of structures as they breathed and pulsed. Under the darkness of this city, under the hum of their florescent bulbs and the tumbling rattle of motorcars, the wheeze of their machines and the clank o
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1502 2 0
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With a roar and short burst of flame, the dragon awoke, startled.
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1502 9 5
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I fear my personal information travels the World Wide Web/
and mad Ukrainians will steal my name and wealth./
I fear the fiscal cliff and raising the ceiling on national debt./
I fear a death by taxes.
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1502 4 4
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My father's cousin is Salem the Dead.
Famed, an infant Lazarus of Libya,
he was brought lifeless from the womb,
yet awoke to the chill of a mortuary slab.
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A proper study of human history should
lead the student to an inescapable desire
to commit suicide
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1502 0 0
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A Nocturne, whose grey mana seeped out of it mouth, grabbed the roof of the building with its large claws. Using it as leverage, it stood itself up, hunched over, its long whale like head roared like a loud horn.
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The nearsighted world/
puts on its lenses
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Zorro lived in his mother’s basement until he could get back on his feet.
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The eyes, luminous and large-
each an infinite bright blue ocean
Wind ruffles feathers
My ego and vanity also/
encourage me not to wear a mask.
An aberration/
that general circumstances/
will remedy, and soon.
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1502 11 4
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The flash of love was real, the life within her was real, and the main thing now was to climb.
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The army was bulldozing grandmother's house.
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I can't take it bird by bird because I have neither.
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The next week, she sends a small white box in the mail / with tissue paper, a ceramic mold the color of bleached bone—
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forced to submit/
to reasonableness//
and universal healthcare.
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She was as beautiful as flowers in a dream
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It’s just that—well, I don’t know how to put this—
With a Dadaist poet a non-affair is the height of erotic bliss.
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You don't want to knowthe details of my lifethe gossipthe boring moments strung togetheracross the lap ofmy sense of responsibilityit drives methrough the daysdoing this and thatchore, check on the listi am tired and need to stop for a drinkand then, i am filled up for a…
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1501 4 1
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threads of Cocoa Krispies
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1501 4 3
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Many years ago I visited a nude beach. I undressed at the car and walked with my companions onto a California beach as naked as the day we were born.
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I took a lover on Ibiza either because he was clean-smelling or because he had a hotel room and there were none to be had.
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in late fall, Rome, sans wind, sans rancor,
sans sand or rain, sans hate ...
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moonbeams unrecognized language
steadies my course
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...Heroin. It helped them get through the tricks and sucked up their flesh.
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