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Global Arms

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How To Find A Galaxy In The Dark

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I don't know what I'd expected from the week of mourning after my mother died but I sure hadn't pictured this marathon cocktail party. Our house is packed with people, food, booze and borrowed chairs. People I haven't seen in years keep turning up with casseroles.I'm…

Henny Penny On Why She Crossed the Road

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Ok, ok, people are forever asking me, so why did I cross the frickin’ road? Dumb-shit me, of course. Consequences waaay unforseen.

As the Wine Keeps Flowing

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My blood has turned to flour I've been in Babylon too long My heart was singed by fire But it's drowning in my song We raised a prayer to Mary We had to take our share We took our places in the ferry But we didn't pay the fare And we don't know…

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.

Flutter in Night

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Have you heard this yet? The daughter flew home to care for the mother, whose pump is still tick ticking—though now with aid—which means she leaves the kitchen when the microwave clicks on.

Destiny Narrowly Avoided

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Then it started extruding tendrils and tying them all into intricate knots.

It is Midnight

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It is midnight in Utah, but I can’t tell. It always looks like midnight in a cave.

The Fact of the Matter

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Jeanne and I were married for eight years. I never knew her.

A Requiem For The Heavyweights

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Breathe a stench of Eton musk...

The Humanists

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“She’s very sick. She’s dying,” and he smoothed my hair along my neck. “It’s leukemia. A very rare type,” his hand reached my shoulder and stopped there. “She only has a few months.”

How To Laugh and Be Happy When Not Drinking

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That is the question, not to be or not to be Life, death, whether to be, all that is superfluous in the face of laughter and how to achieve it under extraordinary circumstances like not drinking anymore I’m afraid not all the alcoh

Independence Day

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It’s Independence Day. But I’m not feeling independent.

Hand Grenades, or The Child in Your Eyes is Exploding the Known Universe

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There is a war, but is it not In my heart? There is a war, but You are not the reason. There is a War, but we're all doing what we can. There is a war, but it is not just Your fight. There is a war, but I Wished you still walked…

Daily Living

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When we are given eternity, as a night is eternal

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.

Jeremy

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My name is Jeremy, and I am in love with a zombie.

The Nude Pianist: A Novel: Chapter 23

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After the Tokyo experience, Frank and Michiko decided that when she went on extended tours, Frank would accompany her.

Playing Boggle with Lowell's Mind

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lewd sinew swine

The Judge's Wife Part 9

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Suddenly something clicked.

How to Stop Doing and Be

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Monday will come soon enough to get/ what needs to be done, done.

Unsent

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this is where we end -- the exorbitant eye of forgotten days.

My Belgian Waffle-Hound: Song

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I was walking my Belgian Waffle-Hound Past the Belgian waffle shop I found a penny on the ground And did a tiny little hop I spun around and went inside The Belgian waffle shop And bought a little waffle For my Belgian Waffle-Hound

Beachcomber's dirge

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

Pop Tarts

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The currents of events/ strip the molecules from cartilage,// reverse polarity of ventricles—

Solution

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

Haiku Life

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A funny thing this life

White Room

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A white room is empty but for you, a card table and a chair.

ice becomes a new marvel

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at all altitudes and at all latitudes / glaciers in furious melt: / both Greenland and Antarctica headed both / to be ice-free isles adrift / and with shorter coastlines amidst higher seas.

The Tale Of Lys

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Even the old medicine woman seemed to grin with a perverted sort of understanding when she opened the door to find Lys waiting outside. She was comfortable nowhere and ready to flee at any moment.