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Soon the world is on film that is burning.
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150754
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Two days ago, a friend of mine and I met at my house. She was a nurse, and could only visit my house very late at night when her shift ended. We don’t meet often because she is very busy saving lives and generally being a more useful human being in societ
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150774
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the stars might be the audience or they might not be
if the beat sits right next to me and hugs me nasty
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150764
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Poetry is conceit; emotional, intellectual or technical.
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1507109
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I offer you a peanut butter sandwich full of unconditional love
and you say I'm being controlling, so I let you eat cake, eat cake.
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150711
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Set your three-word story in prison.
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150742
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they tried to trick the sun
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150732
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The voice on the other end mumbles, not forming words, but I understand: I am to be the starting third baseman for the Detroit Tigers.
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150600
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Mort’s hand-mind suffered electrifying-absence-emptiness; no wife.
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150652
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He spoke the "Why" and it stuck out its tail. He tripped and fell with his face wedged between the W. She kept the answer in her chest so the words wouldn't crowd him where he lay. The "Why" found its way back into his cheeks and puffed his face out like a disease. He…
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150601
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On the street / The protesters stand / Yelling words empty as wind
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150634
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Ascent/Assent
Together the horizon/
Catechism of love
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150642
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"Mama skipped the training bras and just gave me her old bras. I'll be 25 before I can wear her old bras..."
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150675
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... the CBO issued a concise and brilliant report demonstrating that the most cost-effective and permanent solution to the multiple problems presented by persistent poverty in the United States was the elimination of all those with prorated household or i
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150641
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Describe my origami, the shape of a gun or a limp dick, or maybe a flower.
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15061212
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That afternoon she met me in the lobby of my hotel and we simply smiled at each other in the elevator going up to my room where we sat on the couch for about three hours and told of our lives, of being apart, for so many years, then sensing our time was nearly used up, I…
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150600
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A tanka poem about Jolly Old Nick being black as hell.
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150621
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I am exceeded / by a leaf
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150552
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The cold and the ice’ve really stoked a fire in those old bones of his. He runs with the gait of a racer, front legs straight out—each extension producing a crack like Jack London spitting into the cold...
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150512
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Johnny Rocket is on the I-pad, sad, He says, “Game on, King me, the Queen” Always "it", he eats pork rinds like mad, “King him again” high on amphetamine.In his sleep, ants come up from the floor board to eat french fries, cola, their aorta…
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1505117
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She had just done it in the backseat with the man she decided would be her father. Or maybe it was the cast of his eyes under the dim bar lights. Maybe she insisted that this had to be done, to relive the night under the stars, under a dented roof of a station…
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150500
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Why did he seek punishment, if he felt no guilt? Why this empty conscious, though he had done such evil?
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150541
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"I am lying on my back and am confused."
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150521
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Up top, the sky is like a fist fight-
fat lip purple and bitchslap pinks get wilder as the tabs kick in.
Those hovering lights are aliens!
we assert with insistent like-mindedness
from where we sit directly beneath the airport flight path.
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150510
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Desire stirred into the liquid reveals
Cold ice smoking colder,
As you pipet these channels of my heart.
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150576
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Maybe it was a trick of the gloom.
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150531
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It was more than just taste/
more than a point of view/
and oil and pigment/
that painted a store front church/
a box with a cross in a vacant lot/
that welcomed desperation, faith/
and imagination.
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150500
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Aura arrives with the incense and her mysteries. Her scent of wet earth, and crushed flowers, a touch of Jasmine and Frankincense. Her dark hands passing over my body, her warmth. A whisper. A prayer.
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150510
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Tiny was my daughter. Or what was left of her. A mucous-y chunk of what was once in my womb and then wasn’t.
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