1416 7 6
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Maybe it was a trick of the gloom.
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141633
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Who hasn’t at some point of the day wanted to dredge up everything in your pocket just to see what it is.
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1416128
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Compartments trickle together/
in light diffuse and unreliable./
Fortify yourself against the day.
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14161711
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...when they entered eager lungs hungry from deep and sweaty love
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14161012
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All the things that are his.
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141651
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A dead deer on the side of the road and the older boys not listening to her as they stab its eye with a stick.
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141611
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Pen or sword? Pick one/choose your battles carefully/for the paths oppose
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141620
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Look at this castle: fashioned from the sturdiest sand, pages of my name
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141643
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In the end nothing could bring him back because I tried. All those weeks and months, yet all I have left are the tears and memories. He said when he asked the final questions to those in charge he was confused.
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141644
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Sometimes my poems escape. They crawl out through my Wi-Fi connection, I suspect.
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141600
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Osama couldn’t see any reason he shouldn’t retire. No way he could top BP Oil in the Gulf or Pacific Gas & Electric in San Bruno.
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141552
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At 11 pm, it is 87 degrees and I sit in front of the air conditioner, eating oatmeal. The oats aren't soft enough, but it is sugary and fills me. Outside, the city hovers at the edge of a brown out, people sweating hopelessly inside small boxes. In Utah, it was cold…
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Someone shoved over a table. A little girl started crying.
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141522
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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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1415108
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One day, my feet and hands got into an argument. My feet argued that they were superior because they were not only the foundation of my body, but the cause of its mobility. They were modest in size, yet supported and transported an entire body that towered over them.…
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My wife, Sheila, inadvertently clicked my e-mail address, too, when she sent her reply back to him and I read her poet friend's message that her love opened the window of his heart and she replied that his words were knocks that opened the door to her being, then I stood…
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141543
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Nights this husband returned home still hungry sometimes, even for her forearms against his own
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141510
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Sometimes, to be sad, you don't need tears.
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141521
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Wesley did not rob banks in Banning County. Wesley Roberts was the sheriff of Banning County; robbing its banks would have created a conflict of interest.
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...coming into that bone yard, you just hang a right, go on past La Fontaine, and take a left a bit further on. Jimbo's right up in there.
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1415105
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I like it best when I wake up
And the wild rain of dreaming ends.
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141521
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Neither you nor I is old enough, of course,
to remember that America’s most
popular athlete once was a horse.
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I knew we were going to fail. The night we met, when we got out of the car, I dropped my green glove in that puddle, you picked it up but it was ruined. That set the precedent for our whole life together. You can't look at me anymore. My cigarette…
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when i was five or six/ we lived in an apartment/ and every sunday/ i'd lie on the carpet/ to watch squares of sunshine/ crawl across the rug/ while my mother inflicted upon us/ a centuries-long hour of television/ worse than any droning mass.
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141421
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My eyes are wide open. I look like a graphic novel. My world is black and white. I’m poorly drawn. All sounds have an exclamation point.
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141400
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A baseball bat a large pipe a hammer and axe
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today on the bus/ a man in his fifties/ smiled at a baby/
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141400
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This was the anniversary of the chairs. He would celebrate tonight for the chairs, and the chairs would welcome him.
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141453
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We entered the castle at dawn. The dim light feebly illumined an array of antiques and medieval weapons. Bats dangled from the high vaulted ceiling, enfolded in membranous wings. What were once chandeliers radiating light were encrusted with webs and the ancient wax…
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