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the brain plays impish tricks/
and entertains itself with avant garde/
home movies
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141786
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I wrote her a poem.She said, “I hate poetry.” I said, “OK, just read the words then."
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141720
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He also had OCD. He had to kick every dog he met. Johnny killed a lot of dogs and was bitten by many others. He was a cruel bastard.
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141744
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My father died. I took his clothes.
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141731
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The trouble with alarm clocks is naturally that they are miserable. And their curse is that their misery is useful: we employ them because we want to get away from them. But we would never have one as a friend.
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141611
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Who hasn't got a scar...some flesh wound of memory.
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141677
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It's become sort of a habit now when Elsie's husband is away on business two or three times a month that we take the afternoon off and drive nine miles across the river to Marginalia, Arkansas and the Moonglow Motel with its red, neon vacancy sign and although to some, two…
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141665
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We were offered mannequins that had pubic hair that grew and swirled, and could visit like a pet, and sit in your lap
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141665
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141666
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With their brightly-colored bits of
found string
woven into the walls of their nests
to teach their baby birds
what the worms of the future
will look like.
Somewhat like the
cave paintings of Lascaux
for early man in France,
when hunti
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141600
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Alysia’s eyes turned to Megumi where her sister nodded. Alysia took a deep breath and stepped back. There was a moment’s hesitation, but she felt Megumi’s hand gripping her wrist.
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1416128
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We suffer//
the one agony only- of having no longer/
any physical effect nor way to speak/
of what we watch to those we watch.
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141600
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The young man pulls out his wallet, grabs a couple of bills and stops short of handing them to the bedraggled man. “So how do I know you’re not going to go out and buy some crack with this money?”
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141601
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I take her hand. More grey dust rolls off the arms, over the railing, into the wind. It’s embarrassing and I let go. I think she told me to throw them away months ago.
I rub her bare thigh. She laughs real soft like. The corner of her lip curls up.
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141622
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The first days of October are ordinary in the way that milk just hours away from spoiling is ordinary milk. You can baptise your cornflakes with it, but part of you knows the whole thing is just shy of almost right.
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141621
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Vietnam, Tet, and beaucoup Charlie
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1416109
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...clash of gulls
wend upwards, disappearing into grey
night's high tide recedes
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141671
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141630
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blackberry pie and huckleberry wine and litte Maria with her summerset bangs
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1416116
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Everything is bound to change like / a damsel to the tracks.
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141600
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We named her Big Cat—I don’t know why. Maybe because she was already grown when we got her, unlike the kittens we’d seen in the pet store window that Dad wouldn’t let us have.
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141644
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A rope is cleaner,
he explains with a straight face.
He's calmed by the visual.
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1415107
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You stretch my heart / in sacred ways
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141522
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Someone shoved over a table. A little girl started crying.
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141510
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The parrots woke Eddie up. That and Rocker snoring in the twin bed. A thousand parrots flying over the motel? They squawked, God how they…
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141564
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After the Tokyo experience, Frank and Michiko decided that when she went on extended tours, Frank would accompany her.
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141501
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After you started drinking your meals and hating politics I wanted to climb inside, live in your stomach and dissolve. I wanted to make you see, hold you captive with arms stretched, pinned. listen again, swallow…
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141500
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At night, he saw the commercial, the same one every time: the Watson’s girl, mascot for her father’s pool, spa, and billiards business. The Watson’s girl was a veteran at this, the same one from his youth, the one whose heart-shaped face and cleavage the
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There’s someone in the audience who is immolating himself
Cutting his own leg over and over with a pen knife
And groaning: “Oh God, oh God”
And all I can think from up at the podium is
This guy must absolutely hate these poems
I am reading
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