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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.

Youngish Professor, or Grad Student TA

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Natty looking in his 2-tone shoes and argyle socks blue blazer with 3 gold buttons on each cuff pale yellow hemp or burlap necktie, of course with a blue shirt (never white!!) long mopish hair hanging on his forehead and a

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

Sunset

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Behind the bellicose façade lay a soft, compassionate soul. He sat within a swirl of rosy twilight hues, buoyed by the gently creeping tide. A dark wall approached and he mechanically spun and began stroking into the glassy canvas of light and ocean that lay between him…

Another Ending

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you tell a stranger's story...

At the Brooks Brothers Hip Hop Summit

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I pat my pocket to make sure everything’s in order; a Starbucks blueberry scone to sustain me, a $50 Brooks Brothers gift card from my in-laws, and my “piece”–a fully-charged BlackBerry handheld device.

Assiduity Seven

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Uzma dashes up the stairs ahead of me . . .

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.…

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?

Apathy.

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

The Industrious Mice

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I am not responsible for any nightmares this piece may cause for all you mice lovers!

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...

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

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

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 Voice of My Body

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It's saying, "It feels as if you've given me your old, your tired and your poor. I feel much older than the years you've logged."

Any migration is forced

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I’m not / going to change you I /promise

The Sky Bent Over Backwards

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and coughed its grey net over the candle lit world outside. Birds of an arrow sprang into thin air and disappeared over the hills in a quick shortness of zoom-breath-- like a stiffened branch snapping . It's cold. There're …

Baby Teak

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

Washing the dishes...

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There are certain items in the sink that are giving me an anxious feeling in my stomach.

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.