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Assiduity Seven

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Uzma dashes up the stairs ahead of me . . .

The Torture Never Stops

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Who is the torturer and who is the tortured?

Condensation on the Glass

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Condensation on the Glass Riding down 22, I'm looking out the window. Time is a whirlwind. Your memory relinquishes itself, yellowed and fraying at the edges. It's raining and cold. I make a smiley face in the condensation …

Paris Love Songs: Nos. 5 & 6

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Aucune idée

Open Wounds

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Where the skin had grazed, shredded by the coarse gravel to form scabs, fascinated Jack. It reminded him of his youth and his own grazes, scratches and stitches. As a boy he imagined scabs were rough foundations of igneous rock, blood like lava pouring th

Inventorying

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Me sad because of results set forth in my life story.

A Bead Was Lost

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Still Dancing b/w Smokey Conversation

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an engine stalls out in the parking lot the driver tears her skirt coming through the door

Five Million Yen: Chapter 48

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Ben was not a happy musician.

Brothers

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The young boy woke to the sound of laughter. He blinked himself out of deep sleep and allowed…

The Ice Scraper Symphony

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Stay tuned for my next short - Candle Smoke Wishes - COMING SOON ON A MONITOR NEAR YOU!!

driving

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gravel coughing up tires at 90 miles an hour and just getting under way

Lullaby

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I never meant to shipwreck you, I didn't even know I was singing out loud. I just stood on my rock a little too boldly, and hummed a tune you wanted to hear.

Highway 17 South

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did I read that right?

Before I Die

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...to know they are not alone

Session

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Maybe it might be best to, you know, have less frequent meetings.

Snarket

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Shit, I guess I'm gonna hafta

Ben Clarone: Prologue Part 2

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This was not the bar that the artist usually frequented.

Downtown Milwaukee

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Downtown Milwaukee My feet are exposed, never been out in public even out here— …

This Time

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This time the mountain climber does not attain the summit.

Life at the Brew-Ha-Ha Pub

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No matter what you may discover Or come to believe during the drinking life The question still remains: What if everyone was an accident? But still, while time may appear To be nearing its own end And the sun seems to be getting

Unclassifieds 1

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*Must have excellent communication skills and be able to talk pretty good.

Everything that's Gone Wrong, has Gone Wrong Because of Football

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I’m not ready for football. I’m not ready for it, but I live in a southern town that worships at its altar more devoutly than those suicidal beauties in James Wright’s great poem.

Exhale

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It's as if the house knew I was relinquishing my hold on it.

Assiduity Twenty

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I experience a presence when walking through the forest . . .

Blue Baby

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they taught art

Veined and Green

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Where we’ve penned heart shaped question marks, seeds sprouting bowed heads, a congregation of confused supplicants.

The Lycanthrope Fun-Time Activity Book

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an elongating boy with butter-yellow flecks in his eyes, and skin patched like a tabby.

Like Picasso

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lying back on inviolable sheets, your breasts spread apart like a child’s open hands you’d look up at me and smile

A Year and a Day Then

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Removing the deeply embedded jack-blade frommy naked side, like any slicked-upsplinter, was just a bit jarring on the first bite, on first try, I must admit. I freelydo so now to your frozen-over faces. You made your…