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The Impending Fall Of Space Junk

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The world is always changing, even if it's in several eras at once.

Our Own

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The world is upon us. The only thing that matters Now is if you are willing to be seen by them. Many moths Will be hidden by simply gathering on the bark Of the one tree, but this will not sustain you if you Do not also have the courage…

Canyon In The Clouds

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It was two days to town. His horse could only go one.

Pitch Meeting

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Someone shoved over a table. A little girl started crying.

People Who Go to Poems for Truth

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People Who Go to Poems for Truth

bric a brac road

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bric a brac road

Reading Ancient History in the Evening

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In my dreams I am cremated in the burning Library of Alexandria.

Reckonings

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Even in the fading light, it looked big enough to disembowel a man.

White

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This is what it is to feel yourself forget.

Memoir 2.1

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Anyone thinking they aren’t alone on life’s journey has their head up their ass.

Philip Guston Painting of the Courtroom

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While the head of the KKK stands by for the next order, ready to mete out punishment, and smoking a cigar. They are so efficient, like ex-Nazis.

Late at Night

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My eyes hold my mother. It's not easy being human she tells me. She always told me. Sure, but the stories are lovely. We all know that. We generate the tales, tell the tales, kiss our children. Live on in their eyes, though, don't…

Present Tense

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What fascinates me now is now, this instant, this moment. This fugitive, this delinquent, this indiscreet, this forever elusive now. Now now. Now is now and now it is not now. Now is the adversary of time.…

I'm Dreaming of a Nihilistic Christmas

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The mind sparkles with Shakespeare. It's like hearing the rain fall. The world becomes silent and dark and the rain becomes snow and falls like snow and rests on the ground like snow and informs the mind with the values of heaven. A distant oboe pins its sympathies…

re·frac·tion

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bassackward/in the surreal/bathroom mirror

SPIN

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Rose lifted her 55-year-old legs until they were perpendicular to the bed and admired how girlish they looked. It gave her the sexy legs of a 20-year old, if the morning light was right and she squinted a bit.

Aubade Faucet

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I. he leans his messy head against the walland contemplates his wild mistakeshe discovers a nest of red spidersoutside his rotting basement doorhe watches television in his socksand…

Startle Reflex

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I’m decades in and it hasn’t gone away. In all other respects, I am normal. Life is hard, but I’m not complaining. The thing is, I am in a constant state of falling.

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.

Arcana Magi Zero + Pure - c.4

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Everyone kept up with Nemo until the scent led them to the edge of the city. The elders sniffed the ground and found Satoshi’s scent into the stoned woods.

Cups for Saucers

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They were everywhere walking right above us or so it seemed, back and forth, back and forth with their lousy, crunching heels making hollow chewed up noises that took all the sweet sounds left on earth and had them march along…

The Upstart Apprentice of Golden Mean

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...I am taut...my ankles ache...

Genocide City Zone

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Welcome to the genocide city zone I'm sure you'll enjoy your stay We've been killing folks here All the live-long day If you want to join us You'll have to pay the price Your soul's the cost, so ante up C'mon and shoot the dice Welcome to the genocide city zone …

The Interview

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What follows is an interview George Bush gave to Barbara Walters in 2006. He came off like something out of a swamp. Dick Cheney made them deep-six the tapes and we never saw it on prime time. I got the transcript, however,…

Shooting Smoke

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In our first conversation, she tells me love is a dragon: she has come across it’s destruction, hears of it’s size, mythology, of it’s immorality. I sip my hot cocoa (God, I pray she thinks it is coffee)...

Betrayal

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Betrayal of course is the great human crime. As I found out when . . . .

Roadside Assistance

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When it starts looking bad enough, I bundle up and head out the door.

Cast list for a play

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Felix, vigorous vendor of Viagra and part-time picture framer, well-fed and fond and faithless as his spouse

Lyz & Duncan

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This morning, my band mates discussed their relationship deal breakers.

How I Lost 1 lb Per Day

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Warning: Open and read before making any dumb-ass New Year's resolutions.