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I wanna make
banana peel poems--
slippery little booby traps
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143131
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When our body falters, deny us rest.
When our minds crack under the strain, forbid us sanity.
When we are too tired to fight give us war.
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143177
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A new philosophy stirs in its surgery.
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143122
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He began life as we all do, an almost indeterminate blob. Ultrasound sonar plotting his outline on screen. The echo chambers of his beating heart dispelling the ectoplasmic impression of mere ghostly existence. His rudimentary …
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1430114
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He is leaning back against a pillar watching the dancing; a spectator to joy – both planned and spontaneous – that’s unfolding in bodies fourteen and fifteen years old in front of him.
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143022
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He grew up needing an enemy, his class warfare instincts kindled by the death of his father in the labor dispute and bolstered by the readings of Steinbeck, Lawrence, Sinclair and others, and the college-bound students who were particularly bothered by Pi
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143032
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Somniloquies rise like the drowned . . .
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143054
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...That flash of horror as well as the lie that replaced it were mirrors of sorts and both told the truth.
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143032
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I could smell a bold combination of cheap perfume, stale smoke, and sex excreting from her weathered pores. The bus engine hummed as we climbed a winding road. She scratched her neck and tried to finger comb through her knotted hair. I caught a glimpse of
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143065
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I reach into my pocket for my keys and discover the cough drops Iput there a week ago have melted. Now my fingers are sticky. And I don’t have my keys.
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143000
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"Something happens in a magical, soulful part of the heart...and you see YOU. You see yourself."
"I can't look at myself."
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143075
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I got a sixth of a cow in the freezer
That’s not meant to be just a teaser
I guess all I’m sayin’
Come on home and you’ll be stayin’
Cause I got a sixth of a cow in the freezer
Got a rack and a half of ribs
I ain’t tellin’ you no fibs
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143063
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rockstar, moviestar, literary supernova – burning out before all the planets are declassified.
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143032
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“Life is on life’s terms,” she told me once. Her arm, wrapped in clear cellophane, was freshly adorned with a green-pigmented sand-dollar: a living shell.
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143077
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They blew in the doorway of the café at the French Hotel like two sparrows chasing each other. Their wings down in the dust, unheeding any danger in their hunger for each other. I knew the man who was about to become her husband, so maybe this was her las
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143051
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Juan’s tío, Richard, who works for the city and is the kind of Mexican who thinks he isn’t, took care of the lawyer. Juan checks himself in the mirror, didn’t know how good dressing fancy would feel.
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143031
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Your favorite nickname
existed only in the bright red
cherry smoldering
at the end of your smoke.
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142911
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"Shit," said the Charge Nurse. "Not again."
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1429710
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From room to room, neither closet nor drawer contained any remnant of pleasant memory.
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14291511
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Poor, pocked Ceres- dwarf planet/
trapped among mere asteroids-
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14291210
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We can’t be sure. Perhaps it is/
some slight exaggeration of one/
or several elements that steals our breath.
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142994
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The man's dog slipped away one night. He left soon after.
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142922
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From my place, down here amongst the earth, we have many names for you.
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142966
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Then I am wearing a brightly colored raincoat while sitting on a deck among hundreds of tiny glowing spores
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142943
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There was a body in the backseat, and they drove through the highways at night to a late night radio show that played 80’s power ballads. He said: “I am really glad you’re here for me.”
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142965
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I stole forth dimly in the dripping pause
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1429126
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Defy the impulse to grow beyond/
your means and the means of the/
place where you lie at night.
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14292312
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We know them just enough/
to recognize them when we find them.
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1429108
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The best thing about being a cowboy is the cows.
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142900
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Bill texted me at 3:44, invited me to join him at Chip's, where he was having a drink. Chip's Bar is a great dive, and I accepted without hesitation. Ten minutes later I was on a crowded bus filled mostly with fat people, and twenty minutes after that I was…
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