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Life is not always quixotic.
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"I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be. And so I'm on my way home."--Bob Dylan I don't owe you anything. If I'm a recluse what does it have to do with you? I have the right to be poor. Some things cannot be explained away by letters that…
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Floating in liquor only to drown the next morning.
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We’re lucky it/
was chunky spew,
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nothing suffices as harbor / but a permit to claw at every yawing chasm
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In the darkness, as I awaken, an orange glowing 3:45 greets me . . .
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I thought I would write a poemAbout a saguaro trying to please God The saguaro would spend a hundred yearsGrowing an arm and offering flowers in its fist —God barely notices. The saguaro flowers a crown for God.More arms. God then loses his patience…
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In an authentic Irish pub in Las Vegas where over much crowd noise the three of us are discussing Yeats, Joyce and Lady Gregory. We’re in an Irish pub after all, plus the fact we’re literature profs attending a Vegas academic conference.
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Sitting in the car, John had the urge to kill himself.
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for my father I want to memorize this our time together — what we did without her there to tell me You wouldn't want this life you're not cut out for it — and me the child…
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This artist has a wonderful sense of line and color. Abstract is not my métier, but I appreciate the art behind this painting. It helps to copy it. You sleep with it for a time and, like a woman, you learn her passions and taboos.
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Mice dreams are a reality ...
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A small poem about incipient insanity
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Some guys ride hills up and down,
Then stop to terrorize small towns.
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Look around you, see what you have built.
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I feel so glamorous when I talk to Andy on the phone
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She has dwindled for the better part of a year, staved off her period, breasts and hips like a warrior. Chestnut strands that danced along candy apple cheeks now surrender to metal pins, her bun severe as an old maid's. Her prominent ears…
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One cold winter's day she met what she thought was the love of her life. He had everything going for him but his age. You see the sweet young thing was a lot younger than her. One might say that she had lived many lives before he had been born.
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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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The car was a two-tone black and white Chevy...
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Randy stood in the alley behind Krasnowski Construction with a loaded gun shoved down the front of his pants. His friend Todd was inside, unloading the safe. And when Todd walked out the door, Randy was going to shoot him in the face.
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...it's about female needs, Rex.
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a half-moon hung straight up and down
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...collapse of the human world. Go, cell phones!
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“You haven’t been listening, have you.”
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My vagina invites you to a party
Whenever your time frees up
Or now,
Now would be better
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When Carol complained about a pain in her back, Frank didn't think much about it. Her back—especially her shoulders—hurt most of the time he'd known her, almost fifteen years, from sitting in front of a computer all day. It was an old story. “But …
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I left the train, still going nowhere, but in a hurry.
Still a boy, but trapped in a suit.
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I'm fascinated by Don's evolution . . .
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