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Lab Work

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Desire stirred into the liquid reveals Cold ice smoking colder, As you pipet these channels of my heart.

Winter Paints Nelson County

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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.

Beachcomber's dirge

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...clash of gulls wend upwards, disappearing into grey night's high tide recedes

Solution

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I wrote her a poem.She said, “I hate poetry.” I said, “OK, just read the words then."

His Essay on the Meaning of Poetry

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Poetry is conceit; emotional, intellectual or technical.

Going Back in Time: Song

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If we go back in time We are living in tents If we go back in time We are living in caves We are fighting over rivers We are fighting over fields Near the soft edges of slime If we go back in time Nothing would have us And we had t

Putting the Damage On

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My Thursday head belonged to a former Miss Brazil named Rita.

Regret

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Regret takes the shape of little clouds ...

Reprisal

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Reprisal The bomb blew away hubris, shocked the arrogant bastards into humiliated silence. None of them had experienced hunger and they'd misjudged its effect. In the lobby of the palace, dirt, plaster, glass shifted, rumbled,…

Professional Pizza Patter

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We all stared, somewhat shocked and mostly disgusted.

Outside Thunder Pallets

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Carl’s peculiarity of toilet paper rolls is not covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act – he’s looked it up.

Across US Sullen Teens Dump Family for Olive Garden

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"That zit on your forehead just won't go away, will it, sweetie?" she adds as she brushes her daughter's bangs downward.

Love Story

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I fall in love with a second cousin at the picnic. I make sure I sit next to her.

Esmée

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Esmée sat alone at a table on the terrace at Marina Jack’s in Sarasota. She had been there ten minutes and no waitress had approached her.

Style Shifts

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Style Shifts “Oh, yes, my cousin. We were rude boys until the armed gangs started to gather. Used to be we could pass a night driving, playing our songs, acting tough. Yeah. We'd mouth off, flash some teeth, spark some anger when we felt like it. We…

Daily Living

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When we are given eternity, as a night is eternal

What's that on your glasses?

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The shit just doesn't want to come off.

Myself Today

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Suddenly I'm not feeling it anymore. / Poetry has become insufficient. / I can't do it like I used to.

Ignorance

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On the street / The protesters stand / Yelling words empty as wind

The Head

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So I've got this head in a jar and I'm not sure who it belongs to.

Worn

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The shirts hanging by the back veranda serve as our memorial to them.

The letter.

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I am useless. A freak. Different. They all hate me now. All except you, of course. You will never leave me. Never. I'd kill them all if I could. Every single one. But twenty-four, that's a lot even for me. I'm so sick of the cliques; the special groups and hastily strung…

Interior: Classroom

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No girl hits hard enough.

You Don't Need To

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You need only one who notices.

Your Tits Make My Feathers Fall Off

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He thought she should have come with an owner’s manual So he would know how to operate the equipment It was definitely more than he bargained for Or knew how to handle She was too hot

Chapter 27: Prosperity Meteor Showers and the Human Ingenuity Tenders Lasting Economic Recovery Act

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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

Loved, Stupid

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I want to be adored for something and chose poetry to be that something adored for. But Annie doesn’t see why anyone would ever choose anything over love.

Wounds

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Every day, a fresh new/ strain of Hell reveals itself

Road Work '92

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This is how she does it: Forward………… ...Reverse..........…….....Forward..........……...Reverse

#32: Deep in Structures of Awareness (Structured Poem)

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In ashen hills of yonder