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Downtown Milwaukee

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

The Nude Pianist: A Novel: Chapter 7

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Frank kept looking over at Michiko’s loft.

A Bead Was Lost

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Everything I Need To Know About Aging I Learned From Lilikoi

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Behold! Passion fruit!Aureolin sun condensedRolls off palm and tongue.Spurn taut rounded skinWait for wrinklesRipeness revealed, resplendent —The pinnacle of worth.

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.

This Time

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This time the mountain climber does not attain the summit.

Transport

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Ruth carries always a small bottle of nitroglycerin; and tissues, wads of tissues; two Tums (for calcium, she tells me)...

Loveless Lover

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Love me like a crutch Love me when I'm strong

Veined and Green

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

And so, like a kind of molting

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So for now, let the snow fall, but let it fall gently, each flake as a soft piano note

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

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!!

Mauthausen

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I was feeling a bit introspective. I was busy in my own mind assembling the history of the place and getting ready for the visit. I was naturally not someone who would cluster up with a bunch of people I had just met and had arrived to participate in this

Santa

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Santa’s ruddy snoze/

Highway 17 South

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did I read that right?

M. Nerveux Chronicles: Toad Suffers a Bad Business

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Herr Toad smokin'

Assiduity Twenty

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

Blue Baby

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they taught art

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.

Apex

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You left paint and blood smeared on the wall.

The Birthday Jump

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I remember the first & only time I parachuted it was 1964 my 16th birthday a rite of passage if you will from the old man an aerospace engineer & former WWII B24 bomber pilot I practice-jumped from oil barrels taught how to fall back then when the time came…

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

Twenty-two

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The year begins well here with much needed rain and tee-shirt temperatures.

Deadly duel: Blow v. Teach

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At last, we learn if Blow has the cojones to fight.

Releasing Your Inner Bigfoot

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In the ’70′s, Bigfoot was romantically linked with Farrah Fawcett, spotted in an Arkansas 7-11 with Elvis, and tabbed the front-runner to be Secretary of the Interior had Gerald Ford defeated Jimmy Carter.

Unclassifieds 1

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

Amanda Palmer

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Amanda Palmer's explaining the eyebrow thing. An altercation with someone at Roadrunner, or maybe old boyfriend shit to burn— She's animated but he's losing signal, filling in the blanks himself. Whatever, it won't light at first, and then WHUMP and she…

Version - 2.0

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Pale like a tracing of a memory