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Assiduity Seven

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Uzma dashes up the stairs ahead of me . . .

Richardson

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What is golf?

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…

Downtown Milwaukee

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

it

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where will we be/ when it happens?

April, Thirteen

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There is a roofer straddling part of our house, pushing shingles off of our roof with the edge of a shovel. …. I've thought seriously, at times, about becoming a nurse. Seeing your mother in a hospital bed, hooked up to a tube, more than one, too…

Apathy.

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I'm not sure whetherI drink to numbthe pain or toactually feelsomething.

Strange Humidity

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The kitchen is full of old girlfriends. I avoid them. They are munching on cheddar and sharing stories I'm sure I don't want to hear.

Put Your Trust in God

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God is my stomach.

Low Dose Yoga

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Names are forbidden here. So is apology.

Taking Leave

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

Fairy Tale

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Ey’, it’s where I followed him down

Meeting for a Drink

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But the profligate are blameless now Those who conflate sex and love the way dumber animals mistake heat for light have moved freely back to some primal zone where if I’m felt to be contradictory to the surroundings it’s because I wanted t

The Girl I Danced With Is Now A Man

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

Cat Woman Sexy #9

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He kept saying how my old scars excited him to new truths

A Poem for Chris Toll

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we all die from the bottom up

The Neighbors

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The first apartment Troy and Lynn lived in was managed by an alcoholic former army officer, who lived in the complex with his wife and teenage daughter. He was a lush who didn't do much in the way of management. Lynn had barely noticed him before Troy moved in with her.…

Baby Teak

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Baby Teak can access Wikipedia by rubbing two xylophone mallets together.

We of the Paper-doll Brigade Are Not Hiding Our True Selves Anymore, A FaceBook Flash

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I am confused by your new paper-doll look, btw. Could you please look regular again by Thursday?

Perfect Lady

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The Tea Party member was married but cuter. He worked as a caulker, a tub and basin man.

Shadowland

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His touch, even now, seemed to set off tremors inside her.

Caliban's Dream

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

Forever and a Day

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Just an abnormal visit to the post office.

Revisionist History

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A break from bleak world history and events...

Rant.

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Robert Frost told me that life goes on, but that’s just not good enough for me and for God’s sake it shouldn’t be good enough for you either, should it?

Ghoster

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Ross, I've been a ghost hunter for almost 10 years now and this is a place I said I WOULD NEVER NEVER EVER go to!

I Am Not Like All The Rest: Funny Lines From Online Dating Profiles

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After becoming single at age 62, I joined an online dating site. After a year of perusing profiles and meeting men for coffee, staying single is starting to look better and better to me. But I've stayed on the site, in part for the pure enjoyment of…

Two Weeks in a Dristan Land

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I smelled the bleach of burst anemones the sweet arousal of the Dungeness crabs the seaweed of sour twigs and feces

Nothing

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I dream about the boy in The Neverending Story, the gate of mirrors, and the Nothing, a dark cloud that floats in the sky, takes away everything.

Things Unspoken

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There's something about the way he touches me every time that makes my heart skip a beat and pushes the air from my throat. I shiver under his hot breath while he whispers softly and pulls himself closer, letting his fingers glide…