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Space Program

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Mercury and Gemini disappointed.

String Money

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I said hey man, how you doin’? He looked up and nodded but his shades flashed and I couldn’t see his eyes.

Assiduity Seventeen

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In the darkness, as I awaken, an orange glowing 3:45 greets me . . .

Fast

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Everything seems still, but it's not.

Secret Lives of Cell Phones

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...collapse of the human world. Go, cell phones!

Ankles

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At five o’clock Jake joins the crowd at the back door, walks through the slush to the parking lot with Betty Boop.

Delphi and Parlor Games

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Ghosts// and the voice of God/ never actually visited you

In Due Time

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Almost every weekend I'd ask Henry to go out with me and Marge, telling him we could double and, hey, maybe he could bring Ellen, who he dated a while back, who still asked about him. I'd suggest such things as going to a movie or out for a few drinks to reminisce about our…

The Judge's Wife Part 4

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—Well, are you having an affair with Jack Mahler?

Black Sweater

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A small poem about incipient insanity

Silence

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I let go of my properties, my work.

Novemberku

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Dark day.

The Dances

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". . those incandescent secrets she would pepper in. The sister who ran away."

Just Beyond

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hey, this is me who danced to the Doors I thought I would surely dodge that bullet

The Breakup -- I was Always Yours, You Were Never Mine

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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.

It's Part of the Plan

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...and on the eighth day

Towards the End of Memory

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This will be the century of infinite sadness,/ sadder even than the Twentieth/ with its expansive catalog of horrors.

Uniquely Portland

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He saw his mother standing over him, and he called out to her for help, but she only laughed and faded into the paper towel dispenser.

Arcana Magi Memorial Vol.4 - c.3

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Azure felt tired of all her problems remain unresolved, and she felt this was a good opportunity to get one out of the way.

Burger King Blues

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Read signs sometimes and you just might get where you're trying to go. When Eddie suggested they stop for a Whopper, Dennis said no. "Fuck Burger King, man. Let's get that Wendy's up there." They got…

Showdown at the Okay Corral

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I hauled out my Norton Anthology and threw caution to the wind.

solace

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the frost has made all tender greens bow

Love Sick

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Love is a strong word ... When you could have been enough.

Chasing the “Z” words

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It ain't the steak, it's the sizzle.

Silver & Suds

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my hands splash in to silver and suds in attempts to rinse blues caked in grease away for a while

Jenny Whistled Through The Mail Slot

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We all thought, Birds! We all thought, Nests inside the chimney!

Bedtime Stories

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Even before I tap on the door I know I am being watched with one eye. My footsteps have surely given me away. A swift tug on it reveals her to me—half of her, that is, and I slink past the threshold, to her. From her eyes I see that she has…

Tinsel

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1. It started coming down in flakes. The room was warm and the windows were double insulated, but she was naked and her body was being dressed in snow. He stood over her with the spray can. Maybe you can be the Christmas tree this year. You won't keep me till Christmas she…

Death of an Eikaiwa

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When I rolled him under the bed, I thought I would sweep him out later with arms curled up like legs beneath the shells of cicadas I used to gather from the laundry porch and set on the kitchen counter to scare my roommates. At least, I did that until…

The first sense of desire

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I want to own you, even if it is only for a few moments or a few hours, but it will not be worth it unless for that brief span of time I know that the only purpose of your existence is to be a woman whom I own.