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When I was younger, I tried very hard to be myself, but it never worked. I'd close my eyes, wait a beat, open them and slowly bring them into focus. This is the new me, the only me. Never worked, not once. It could only last a minute or two, so I…
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The man who put up the clothes line left his kids upstairs at night and came down to my bed.
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“You look so … distinguished.
My!” she said.
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Sarge had done this before. Not with this many rookies and not on a one-way trip. This was a suicide mission. The boys didn't know it, but he did. They weren't coming back. Hell, they couldn't come back
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Mercury and Gemini disappointed.
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A dirtied light falls through/
the grimed windowpanes.
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I may be the shadow that I am, but I only ever loved you.
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W here do you think you're going
what'll you think you'll do
running down this highway
that you never even knew
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The flowerpots across the street from Frank’s room at the Place d’Armes Hotel never appeared parched by the late August sun.
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She connects to you
via snarling vines
& worm-woven tunnels.
Drops Roman numerals
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Nights this husband returned home still hungry sometimes, even for her forearms against his own
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I visited his loft last week. There were many exciting new pictures. Francesco was your main money earner before, now he will be again.
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We all know that sometimes miracles happen and sometimes they don't. Some days are good and some days go by slowly as the fatigue sets in and he realizes that he is fighting cancer.
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"My sister's parrot admires your armpit," X-Lautrec says. "Would you be so kind as to nail an avocado seed to a cup of black coffee?"
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I've been in Tucson two days, and so far most of my conversations with my father have taken place while I crane my neck and squint into the sun. I scream up, he screams down.
He needs to fix the leaky roof before the rainy season, he says.
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We perform our chosen duty— naming/
beauties and atrocities within
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For decades the land the village sat on had switched its allegiance between two countries.
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Yesterday I saw Marco Polo getting a tattoo on East Olive. He was practicing Mandarin Chinese with the tattoo artist who was also Chinese. He got a yin yang symbol on his bicep. He looked to the east and saw the hills lift themselves into sky. He grimaced
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On such warm nights when wet sex happens suddenly, please, remember the amaryllis. How they’ll push up out of the ground in August after the first real heat opens the air. I too was born in such weather.
Balmy nights when heat lightning beats in the
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My apologies also for those crowded roads you and your families have to drive on. My generation would have built more public transportation but, in all honesty, we just didn't give a damn.
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Foolish boy, you chose
your parents poorly-
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I have two of those hand exercisers jamming the
tray and keeping it locked in place
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He disrobes; shoes, socks,
shirt, belt, pants. He smells of hard work.
The nude whisper of everything else.
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i think god composed afternoons with crayons
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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.
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A tattoo of a river steamboat, one you dreamed up in your sleep and drew yourself is anchored around your nail bed on your thumb. I paint my nails with regatta sails. The toxic fumes sting my nose. You say you're bored and take out a needle filling it with ink. I watch as…
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Did they do it in pairs or all at the same time?
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gravel coughing up tires at 90 miles an hour
and just getting under way
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