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Blood Quantum

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I play in the dirt with cattle bones while Mother rattles the sky. She tells me I have my fathers eyes. The words come through bloody fissures in her lips.

Barrier Island

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At the beach house

Modern Car Problems

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Sitting in the car, John had the urge to kill himself.

Steel and Spell

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Pen or sword? Pick one/choose your battles carefully/for the paths oppose

100 Words

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She thinks this is the place she dreamed

Exordium

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Overhead cranes balance ordinance from one end of the palatial enclosure to the other. There are robots, high-voltage, force-fields…more than a hundred ways someone could get hurt. I looked back again…She was gone.

A Bead Was Lost

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Sinking to the beat

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I'd wear my pajamas too, fitting for the big sleep

Threshold

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He wasn't sure if I was joking.

Five Million Yen: Chapter 48

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Ben was not a happy musician.

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.

2011 - What I Wanted

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I might have gotten laid

Falling

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Sometimes when I fall I see a ...

Tomcat

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And, if you look real close, you see there’s a bullet hole next to his left ear. A stray one went past his head and straight through Santa’s heart.

Again, the Spring

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The Girl I Danced With Is Now A Man

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You can't always be everything you were expected to be

Mercury Unbound - 5

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As the music concludes, I'm finally in control of my emotions . . .

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 Song of Jerome

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"My love is with eggs!"

Beasts of the Talent Show

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Finally my daughter emerges from behind the silver curtain, riding piggy-back on a gigantic proboscis monkey. She's preoccupied by his nose, and wrings it like a wet dishrag with both hands. If it hurts he's not showing it.

A Poem for Chris Toll

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we all die from the bottom up

Under This Cover of Quiet

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Originally published on Six Sentences:In a family of many hushed secrets, only so many years could pass before the cracks would begin to show, and usually started with the creative girls. Though her aunt had been dead for two years, Shifra knew the cracks the family…

A Record of Wrongs

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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.

Trial Separation

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"You're no good at sex, no good at drugs and, god knows, no good at rock and roll."

Global Arms - 3

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She continued to cooperate with a city council agenda dominated by globalized privatization

Then You May Have Complicated Grief...

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......Based on an ad I heard on the radio from Mass. General Hospital in BostonHave you ever experienced death?Have you been in grief,past the cut off periodof six months?Has it affected your life?Has it strained relations with your wife?It is our beliefthat you…

The Secret Life

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The silver urn of ashes inscribed with his unknown name.

Our Last Night at the Nunnery Motel 2.0 in Milano

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They make you work For your pizza in Italy You have to slice it yourself While wearing a gas mask To ward off the cigarette smoke From every neighboring table While chasing away the Mosquitos and the pigeons The flies and the gypsy r

Darryl, The Biography

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"I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be. And so I'm on my way home."--Bob Dylan I don't owe you anything. If I'm a recluse what does it have to do with you? I have the right to be poor. Some things cannot be explained away by letters that…

Meal

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When they tell you to choose your last meal, it probably hasn't dawned on you yet.