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Dancing on the Rhythm Bus–One Night after Leaving The Pyramid Club, 1991

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The next day I can’t recall at all, a waste, like the flash of twenty years of my life, faces that pass you like comets in some erogenous unnamed zone of night, but they got me in some isolation room with my wrists in leather restraints.

Wintering

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Winter makes me reconsider.

fake letters in reply

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I did do one nice thing for you

Only Temporary

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It was the middle of May when I found out my teacher was screwing my mother.

ace in the hole

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hookers are better educated these days

The Book

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The following is a true story, or rather it is a true experience from the story of my life. Some say that just because something happens doesn’t really make it “true”.

Prayer

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Prayer

Don't move

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The tech turns off the music. The capsule blares. I am in Jurassic Park with Sam Neill. I am Timmy, descending the electrified fence, almost toast. I am Karen Silkwood, a deer in the headlights, then showering off plutonium. A garbage truck is compacting

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…

The Suicidal Juggler

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The man wore a bowler hat and stood on an open patch of grass, with a pyramid-shaped stack of baseballs at his feet.

Write power

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Write power like a purring kitten eyes wide without an idea of exactly how small he is.

Julia

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Six months later, she was teaching theology / to refugees from est.

On The Stoop

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The leaves were meaningless because they were no longer connected to the trees.

The Eleventh Brother, After the Swan

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I turned a maiden to a witch / and back again

Bethlehem

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I dragged you that last half mile Me such a slip of a thing, one bite mark visible You the bear, your growl now only audible When you furred from kerb to road to kerb The December snow followed us Dragging Christmas red behind you As I ignored my…

Robot Museum

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ABSOLUTELY DO NOT TAKE PICTURES OF ROBOTS!

Everything Has Been Arranged (or, Chamomile Tea at Ten Thousand Feet)

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The building ejects my condominium like an enormous videocassette.

Glue

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There is no cement stronger than the one holding a miserable couple together.

Center of the Universe

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Lick the Empire (ELECTRIC DELIRIUM 1.3)

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Can you see the rut? Can you dig your fingers into the flesh?

The History of Strands

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We cannot love the past...

Moon Backstory

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Today clouds were dancing on the moon Moon had a fit but drew in a breath And let out a sigh

How dare you?

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She took a deep breath. Last night, she said, Who was the woman?

Bitter Tide

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I loved without marriage and the men loved without divorce and we loved a twenty-four-year-old eating and how gracious she shone over a tame bottle of beer.

Too Early, Too Late

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Things don't always go to plan. Gem knew what people would have said back then, of course. She wasn't stupid.

Boys

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He came to a spot on the edge of the strawberry fields where he liked to sit with his brother and watch the turkey buzzards circle overhead

'MY DICK IS SO HARD FOR JESUS!' by Christofascist Jones

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"Now, I'm not no Holocaust Denier . . . I just think it was a little bump in the road! Like Reagan said about Watergate . . . 'Mistakes were made,' and all. Well, shoot . . .…

The Naming

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we name invasive species,

New World

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The flash of love was real, the life within her was real, and the main thing now was to climb.