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Early in the morning
I wanted to send you something
for when you wake;
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The Italian was late. She was supposed to come into the store, meet him in the back, and arrange to take the last of his liquor.
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A tornado and peacock were bred in his paddock; the couple gave birth to a turquoise lasso.
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The winter’s too warm for the bears to sleep,
and they get up in the middle of the night
with insomnia and wander about the streets
in their pajamas, knocking over garbage cans,
looking for a midnight snack of some kind.
They’re getting kind o
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I suppose it was inevitable, This crashing of souls, This recognition of possibility to create. If we were younger, We would make a baby, The ultimate act of faith. Now it has to be something else, Nothing to force a track with night feedings, …
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Laurel's new bike is powder blue, with silver tassels on the handle bars. Jenny's mouth actually waters at the sight of it, as though it were a fresh loaf of bread or a perfect, juicy orange. “You can ride it if you want,” Laurel…
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just before my break,/ he came on the line,/ old and slow with computers now/ but wanting a discount/ he'd been told he qualified for.
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Every town has one. Or one at the very least...
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There are no inspirations./
There are only the things I like/
and the much more numerous//
things I do not like.
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You have such a complicated mind /
for refusing to believe in God /
just like any damned liberal /
whose fingerprints /
crowd the faces of a thousand /
dollar bills /
being passed around your great nation...
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In exactly 100 words, I review the cracks between my keyboard keys.
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The dance draws deeper
whirling witches weaving rhymes
The fire spits fierce in the falling rain
soon the spell will spill from secret times
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Suddenly something clicked.
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But the profligate are blameless now
Those who conflate sex and love the way
dumber animals mistake heat for light
have moved freely back to some primal zone
where if I’m felt to be contradictory to the
surroundings it’s because I wanted t
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this is where we end --
the exorbitant eye of forgotten days.
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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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the two become one where/
all things end,
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Miracles don’t happen to the poor.
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...clash of gulls
wend upwards, disappearing into grey
night's high tide recedes
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We got a sandwich at Mr. Pickle's, but they cut the sandwich in the plastic. Plastic wrap.
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The currents of events/
strip the molecules from cartilage,//
reverse polarity of ventricles—
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Downtown Milwaukee My feet are exposed, never been out in public even out here— …
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When Chuck dies, I’ll throw/
a party and dance, a little drunk,/
across what I’ll pretend/
is the old shit’s grave.
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You are a warm winter
Despite the presence of snow
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Ok American dogs. Here my first story I wrote when I only two days old! Then evil moderator delete me and story go away. Now I three days old. I try to remember.
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...the relatives didn't seem nearly as fucked up as she thought they would be considering...
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Blue skies greet us as we exit the forest . . .
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He knows I talk to angels, what he would call angels. I don’t talk to him.
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My student assistant was a comely young woman. A freckle faced blonde. She was from Ohio.
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The struggling creature opened its beak and let out a shrill cry before both parents moved in and, using their webbed feet, forced its head back under the surface.
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