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Remembering Ginsberg
who howled through just about everybody's idea of the real weirdo poet
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Saturday morning, and I’m pushing the old truck a little, chasing retreating bands of cloud shadows along a winding hilltop road.
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The knees remind you: you are old,/
and broken, and unlikely to improve
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I smoked my cigarro under his watchful eye. We were never able to make too much conversation even when I was teaching him at Educenter. Now that David had opened his own school, Evert had come to learn with him because it was much more affordable, but he
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I didn’t give her enough skin. The world will always hurt her.
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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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...when they decided to teach her a lesson, it was with particular vigor and vitriol...
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On my twenty-second birthday, in the spring of 1979, I had a crawfish boil, my first. Ninety pounds of red mudbugs on a picnic table spread with newspaper, my birthday cake sitting at the end of the table like an afterthought.I hadn't…
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TV and power cord valorized in dust,/
wires and digital guts unimpaired, I’d guess . . .
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They meant no harm when they flooded farms in its swirls and eddies
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bassackward/in the surreal/bathroom mirror
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Three teeth. You can pick them out if you hit pause just right. Probably not a person in the entire valley who hasn’t seen that video from the Eastern Cheerleading Finals. They even showed the tape on the eleven o’clock news in Scranton, my face ci
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Our dinner was over and we regretfully had to leave the restaurant. She leaves with enough shopping money for a few weeks. He, getting the rough end of the deal, has charged more money to his credit card at 19% plus cash withdrawal fees. So I ask myself
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On the news they said that there was a baby born in a stable. There are rumours that he may be the son of God but initial reports are unconfirmed.
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... and photos of friends from former lives: the Wolfman; Drac; the Mummy; my ungrateful Son; even my gold-digging, coat-tailer ex-wife.
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They look like giant golden raindrops, or flying saucers, or peculiar fish out of their element
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I found the hand eight months ago, after I planned to grow a meadow of tiny yellow blossoms in my yard.
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On my honeymoon, we went upstate to the Catskill Mountains.
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I contemplate the words that did not make it; the lost ones. The words deprived of their moment in the sun. These words. These words that are not part of the story.
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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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There is no cement stronger than the one holding a miserable couple together.
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She is too stylish to be crazy, is what the migrant probably thinks. And he's right.
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...Heroin. It helped them get through the tricks and sucked up their flesh.
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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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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.
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She took a deep breath. Last night, she said, Who was the woman?
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Published in Exquisite CorpseI…
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We all need a place to stay.
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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
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