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A Lot of Things to Tell You (from FATHER MUST)

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How long have you been waiting for me? How long?

Consider the Living

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we're not at war / with the world. We have papers.

Arrivals

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The poppers, the Viagra, the chorizo – all had been ordered and all had arrived.

People Who Go to Poems for Truth

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People Who Go to Poems for Truth

Mutterings

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That old woman's got to be senile or something. The other day she asked my daughter if I had a "thing about water." Sharon told her I didn't, but then came right in and asked me, "Mother, you got a thing about water?"

When I Grow Up; Or, Why Teenagers Shouldn't Listen to Angst-Rock

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rockstar, moviestar, literary supernova – burning out before all the planets are declassified.

Arcana Magi Zero + Pure - c.1

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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.

I Was a Cat Once

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This is a 50-word story.

It Isn’t Personal. It’s Business

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because you pay/ for it to matter to me.

Wounded Animal Songbook

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I pull into the parking lot and see a group of roosters squawking and trying to overturn an ‘87 Pontiac Bonneville that's caught fire. They're pouring whiskey down their throats. They're weeping over a bag of economy sized frozen breast fillets.

Exit 30

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They meant no harm when they flooded farms in its swirls and eddies

Jouissance

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BECAUSE to fuck is an incidental REASON to be here

Rolls

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Nothing is ever hoarded in our house, everything is eaten.

re·frac·tion

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bassackward/in the surreal/bathroom mirror

Grace

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The instant you remember gratitude with enough focus to spring free its power...

Amends '82: Part Two

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Bobby took one out and looked at the date. "July 1965. Does that mean anything to you, Ma? Carla, T.J.?" Bobby handed the paper to my mother. "Why don't you spread it out on the counter to see if you can find something that he might have wanted…

War Then

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They were just boys, the Nazis I mean, young in their twenties, not much older than my brother Cyril.

End of the World

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The world doesn'tend just becauseyou want it to.Bonus poems:The Poet(Series 1)by Darryl PricePoet in a TreeYeah, well, it's not up here either. Although the everything and nothing view is nice. Only because it doesn't have any abandoned cars in it. I'm…

Accidental Discoveries

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They look like giant golden raindrops, or flying saucers, or peculiar fish out of their element

Letters to Conrad

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Dear Conrad, If you cannot control your dog’s barking I’ll rig up a loud speaker facing the general direction of your house, and every time your mutt starts howling at the moon, I’ll start playing “It’s a Small World (After All)” at top volume on the p

Shadow Play

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I read it all wrong. In writing her novel, I thought Marilynne Robinson was writing about twins — writing, in some way, about me. Instead, these characters, Lucille and Ruthie, were standard sisters, one older than the other. In fact, Robinson explains th

Five Million Yen: Chapter 43

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Ben was in no mood for games. His ribs hurt and his eye was painful. He would have to tell this girl, who had flicked her tongue in his ear and who did not sound like Sophie, to get lost

In Distress

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When a multinational big box furniture store opened just off the expressway outside the city selling all the same products at greatly reduced prices, they contemplated the possibility of closing their store.

Center of the Universe

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Drug Series # 19: Heroin

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Billie Holiday and I want a cup of coffee and they tell us to go fuck ourselves.

The Naming

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we name invasive species,

The Street Singer

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The Street singer gathers up his coins and counts to a hundred before The last string stops vibrating

ace in the hole

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hookers are better educated these days

White Room Trials

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November 24th-- Subject began to chew the flesh of his forearms. Researchers considered interfering but decided against it because subject was only bleeding slightly.

Five Million Yen: Chapter 5

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Then he took the tune out to Ben Clarone land. The horn was beautiful, if leaky. His fingers flew over the keys.