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We all tell them/even when our mothers
warned us only the Devil/tells stories
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In a mad tipsy leap you came up short and hard on the chipped stone counter Bruised and blue below the seams against the inside of your thigh. Your grand jeté a little too low, left you on the black floorboards Wincing in…
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The bar was dark and a little dirty, and that suited Splinker's mood just fine.
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When I slip through the seams I return to the same place.
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Ships tumble, cars crash, horns gulp water, bombs burst up from the ground in a halo of screams.
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When the dark shadows of his limp eyes told us life was slowly seeping away, stolen by his stroke, his wife signed the “DO NOT RESUSCITATE” order and, tearfully leaving the room, she turns, asking a final question, “Think a needy family could use his…
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The blaring scream from my alarm clock suffices as my wake-up call. It disrupts me from my dream state that I so rarely get the privilege to experience any more. I've always loathed that alarm clock, so I turn it off in the most sensibly aggressive manner I know how: just…
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There is no life here, only a bleak slab of frozen desert and a sorrowful wind that calls for me to venture out.
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Then it started extruding tendrils and tying them all into intricate knots.
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I await, here at Sandymount Strand / There's a stony bed and moistened sand / Couples dance away into futurity /
With their dogs upon the shore
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In and out of morphine dreams, he flies through the unfinished roof of Illinois sky. Below, matchbox-sized farm machines. A silo becomes his father's thermos, the silver-capped tower from which he stole sips at ten, his first secret. Back …
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So I've got this head in a jar and I'm not sure who it belongs to.
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Yes, I can imagine it now/
how we could each disappear completely/
connected only through memory's fault lines/
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“The window is a much better place to read,” she said.I wasn't aware she was talking to me, at first. In my typical manner, I was thinking about far off possibilities and realities completely detached from my own. Yet, here she was, a far off…
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Look around you, see what you have built.
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Overnight Robbie had lost his youth. But since he was still only nine and his arm looked like a nine-year-old's arm, people didn't notice much at first, until he tried running. Or if he was introduced, and they went to shake his hand. He immediately lea
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The woman in green doesn’t want to encounter the meter maid who is actually a man and so waits to one side at the newspaper racks as if purchasing a paper while that person writes the parking ticket (this city needs that money) and drives away in his li
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Ayane took another look of the area and it was large warehouse. A loud thud vibrated outside.
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In the fall it is especially beautiful with the blazing orange oaks set on fire against a crystal blue sky. It is here that she frequently daydreams of her demise.
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She remembered how cold it was in the factory that day. A few of the high windows stood open as usual, necessary for ventilation when the machines were all running, when the concrete floors were packed with the sweating bodies of warm human workers. The
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My sixth grade teacher used to tell us all the time about how being poor is nowhere near the same as living in poverty.
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She burps in beauty, like a frog
Who sits on lily pad so green,
Resounding nightly in his bog
But to my eyes unseen.
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There was no provision for keeping the post on the door, but I did not have the fingernails to pry it off.
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We deny one another, here,/
as long as it’s plausible.
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they flew down the slopes
with her holding on
for all she was worth
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I always thought I would feel your hand, always, Lay with you as we flew higher together, laugh with You in the little spaces left between certain trees, like tiny blue flowers that only appear suddenly, made secretly Of…
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Treasure that first love. And that first heartbreak. Don’t let it be the last thing.
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The rain is filling up my shoes,
I can’t see
through my glasses,
Rain all inside me.
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