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Chromio citrio sticky-floored furio...
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Human, you said,
Comfort me, at this the end,
Life so long, and smiles so short,
What will lie beyond the bend?
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Flish flash, flish flash, flicker of triangle lights. As he deparks, I say, “See that girl?” She crosses at the stop sign with blond hair flip, flash of white teeth: rips cookie from wrapper, drops wrapper on ground. “I bought her a…
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But when the KGB went out the castle window, what a surprise was waiting for them. Because we had lined the pit with a huge dung heap, and camouflaged it with a colored pink wrapping as if it were feathers, just like Cristo had done. We wrapped the shit p
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what lion lies/ o king of flame/ upon your golden crown?
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The steady sound of shoveling for the past three hours would have woken her, should have made her come to the window...
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heart-shaped stones
love, devotion
no way
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I've got an appointment to see my shrink next Wednesday. She's pretty sharp. Not bad looking, either.
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Read that bit in Alice about the mock turtle soup
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Jill's number was flashing on Carol's caller ID. Jill, the baby sister she had practically raised after their mother died of a stroke when Carol was 12. It had been months since they'd talked. Jill had been avoiding Carol because Jill's idiot husband Mark…
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a half-moon hung straight up and down
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In his inexpert mouth they drone/
mechanically along without the lilt/
or cadence of an Irishman/
or Englishman or German.
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Follow the money. It seeks/
the lowest of the low and finds them here/
in an embarrassing abundance.
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Big Girl always stops on Talbert Hill.
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You first hear about the wildfire on the old kitchen radio.
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Something about her eyes...
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He can become anyone. If he wants. He'd rather not but it's not his choice.
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“Well in opposite heaven every time you make scrambled eggs the shells break into a million pieces, then you spend eternity picking them out of the yolk.”
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We came to the dump at dusk to shoot rats.
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We looked out into the darkness and then at our children. The dark of the forest was feeding them with ideas, filling their imaginations with things beautiful and things wicked.
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It's come down to this: you're a grown man afraid to face his own son. For the past few years there has been tension;…
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Sunset swoony love waves
crash over me and I forget why
I didn’t say yes sooner
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We were offered mannequins that had pubic hair that grew and swirled, and could visit like a pet, and sit in your lap
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One sneaker in the middle of the A-Plus Pawn lot...
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Perhaps they serve/
a God’s twisted will//
as they accelerate extinctions
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I'm using a 16mm motion picture camera with sound on film, equipped with a magazine holding six hundred feet, giving me approximately fifteen minutes of continuous shooting. Uzma has changed her cloths again. She's dressed for working in the garden, wearing a white…
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It's gone too long since her Robby Sherwood's dreams rose through the tenement chimney into pear-sweet clouds. Once was he planned histories, carried herself over slopes of hesitations to the night meadow, soft-skinned and whispered. Her man shouldered…
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Today is my birthday. Well, my assembly date, anyway.
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I remember a big Walgreen’s Drug store (maybe in Elmhurst, or Oakbrook Center?) and this shopping expedition we went on. That’s where you bought your first Dust Buster, I believe (or was this another man?) Anyway, you made me carry everything. We didn’t
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