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. . . nor did mine eye apologize.
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the brain plays impish tricks/
and entertains itself with avant garde/
home movies
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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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I want to tell you how the odor of the flowers/felt her funeral day
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I was an alcoholic for ten years, starting in my early twenties and continuing into my thirties. Then finally, after many attempts, I got myself straightened out. My son's birth finally did it for me. It wasn't like a switch flipped in the delivery room…
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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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—Jesus, that bastard has everyone in his pocket.
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"You don't need the gun," Dean said. "Bring me a bottle of peroxide and some duct tape."
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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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Who owns the moon? What title search/
could ever make a claim?
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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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They waited not a moment longer than was necessary But moved right in and
Began their loathsome ch
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The brain taints everything it brings to us/
with its limited apparatus, its precepts,//
all the things it thinks it knows.
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"the dark velvet slide of the tongue."
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He stops smiling and only
says he loves me when prompted,
as if asking me to pass the salt
for his inner peace as it tastes too bland.
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Even music relies on what/
you know as music/
for its power to enthrall.
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You have the right to be happy
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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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After the Tokyo experience, Frank and Michiko decided that when she went on extended tours, Frank would accompany her.
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My beloved lets me crawl into bed
and put my feet on him
since his skin is
warm and hot like a fire roaring from within
his soft flesh.
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Fear the air and fear the fire./
Fear the land and fear the water./
Creation is out to get you, speck,
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Maybe it might be best to, you know, have less frequent meetings.
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The Vegan Defense League is a vigilante group formed to fill the gap left by local law enforcement, who jam the parking lot a mile down the road at a donut shop. “By the time the cops finish their coffee and chocolate frosted donuts, we could be dead.”
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This late November day there are too many leaves filling the yard.
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Joe's, always smelling of cherry chapstick or the breeze that comes up from subway grates, used to service some of the finest dupes in town.
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Shirley stubbed her cigarillo out on a dead chunk of honeycomb.
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I looked down at Earth and imagined this porn star who’d asked for my help.
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And your daughter, Mrs. P, and your daughter Mrs. Q, underwater, underwater in the old swimming hole, in the backyard swimming pool. “They’ve all got children there.” La la.
Yet when I’m naked, when I enter with my own body the mirror, the small sha
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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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No excerpts for you. Next!
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