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Supernova

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Ben had us over, me and him and his boy, Benji, to look at the supernova. Ben was always coming up with these things with the telescope. Jupiter's moons, Saturn's rings. On his wedding night he made everybody stop dancing and run out to the golf course so he could show us…

This Is Why

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Look at this castle: fashioned from the sturdiest sand, pages of my name

Snack

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Kerryn saved us from ourselves really. Would you be reading this had she eaten it?

Perilous Joy

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...bush tail beside him his closest comfort next to the genes...

Melons

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A baseball bat a large pipe a hammer and axe

68 & Riverside

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Martin met Siena in the elevator, carrying two brown bags of groceries. She asked him to press the button for floor eight. As they rose, Martin fixed his eyes on the display as it changed numbers: G, 2, 3… and so on.

Happy Birthday Sian or How to Fall in Love

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I learned how to fall in love, in one hour, watching The Waltons. John Boy fell in love with Jenny. Jenny fell in love with John Boy. It taught me the right way to fall in love. It taught me the right way to let love go. I was 12 years old. It was a lesson I…

I Am Quantum

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He had a lean build, except, remarkably, his midsection was perfectly barrel-like. As if he kept an alien lifeform in his belly, cultivated by years of Pabst and Yuengling transfusions.

Transgressions

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Once you descend, the third rail/ hums its invitation

Tatters

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inside i know my heart rattles cause outside i'm only seeing that the truth is in tatters

The Judge's Wife Part 8

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—You're convinced I'm crazy. I'm convinced you're incompetent.

An Orb for a Better World

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Max sighed. Solving for x was boring, so mind numbingly boring that he didn't notice the flickering blue light hovering in his room. It crackled and popped, growing until a shimmering rectangle stretched from floor to ceiling.A hand pushed out from the rectangle, and a…

Junk Pulse

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Me included...

Cube of Boxes

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...he was suddenly and hazily relieved that he had something in Persepolis and blue agave plants to talk to her about.

The Girl I Danced With Is Now A Man

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

Figures in Disquieting Landscapes

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Tentacles hold fast to the small/ thrashing thing they believe is true// which, devoured, once crushed/ completely still, turns into shit,

Nut Breakers Hill

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they flew down the slopes with her holding on for all she was worth

Caliban's Dream

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Today I’m feeling crabby and haggard and technology makes it easy to get to the point.

Taken from 'A Story of Me And You'

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No one commented on her altered appearance, although Will in Accounts said he quite liked her hair like that, so she assumed that no one could see the snakes. But she still felt self-conscious, exposed. She had to remember not to talk to them when she was…

Taking Leave

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A walled city doesn’t let you out any more easily that it has let you in earlier.

When Birds Do Not Fly

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The last chick in the nest

leave the dog, take the cannoli

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he who laughs last is probably a dumbass fuck

Lose the Baggage

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I could be dead wrong.

Desert Storm, an Infrared Dream/David Avidan

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Desert Storm, an Infrared Dream/Poem by the late David Avidan On January 17, 1991 I woke up at 02:45 from a neo-surreal dream with a slight not very serious feeling of suffocation a pre-asthma attack instantly stifled with the inhalation of Ventolin an

Intrepid Explorer

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The Intrepid Explorer recounts his travels for the benefit of subscribers to the Magazine of the Museum of Everything

Angelic

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Remembering his body makes me think of Egyptian cotton sheets dried in the sun. He smelled crisp and clean even after sweating hard. His hair fell in golden spirals down his cheeks, his back, over his forehead, and captured light just like the gilded halos on…

Two Takes on a Flickering Moth

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Take 1. The Love Letter to an Unspoken Name Well we're beyond our appointed Moment now. We must step On what's left, alone, but That begs some explanation to These days that pinball between Stars and to the sad dreamers…

Coyote Agonistes

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Wile E. Coyote? A junkie strung out on bunk dope.

No. Please, No . . .

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["LIKE SAND THROUGH THE HOURGLASS ... SO ... ARE THE DAYS OF OUR LIVES!"]

3 Poems Of Broken Hands And Lonely Drones

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another lonely drone holding still