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Stuffed Shirt

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It was the losers’ bar in my neighborhood.

Write me a Will

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Write me a Will you laughing boy,

Jackie Kennedy, Marge Simpson & Longevity: What I Learned From Magazines This Week

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The title of the overdue book returned to a public library in San Francisco 100 years after it had been checked out? Forty Minutes Late.(Readers Digest, 04/17)In 1999, Kathy McKeon, Jackie Kennedy's former assistant, went to a Halloween party dressed in a Marge Simpson…

Losses

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Each day, I lose more words-/ nouns and verbs- but especially// proper names. People and places

in caring

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familiar people passing closely faces we recognize but cannot place

The Judge's Wife Part 8

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

This Story Has No Title

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They watch her, scald her skin with hot eyes whose stares run up and down her body like lice.

Spring in November

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It is dead, for a time. Sometimes we are all dead for a time. Our lives leave off, sleep under the weight of snow.

surrogate

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the vigilance that informs a parent's every hour had momentarily lapsed

20th Century Boy

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The night I screamed you out of my life for good, I fed your confettied photo to swirling toilet, a ticker tape parade and dead fish burial rolled into one. Later I found the box, a jiffy…

Diorama

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In the center of the big diorama, the real world hangs in the air by a hook.

concession to the shapes of hunger

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(no one need fear timidity in our tastes― / we like trying new things, no matter our hastes!)

Dramatic Effect

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You wanted transcendence, wanted height, danger, the tracks blurred into murky distances behind and in front of you. You slipped, reached for it, starlight shining in your eyes, something you didn't have when I held your hand. We didn't fold the…

Assiduity Nineteen

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Luv walks around touching everything with her little hands. Uzma follows behind her, talking sweetly, saying: "This is going to be your new home for a while, darling."

Afterglow

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The drone of radio seeps into the car’s back seat… I hear only bits and pieces of information –

Sharp-shinned

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Survival is often violent.

Exiled from English

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Then they made him stay after school and met with his parents. Scott was sent outside to play in an empty playground. He didn’t feel like playing. He sat on the steps outside the classroom and listened to his Dad shouting through the plastic walls.

It's autumn

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Mum and Dad are dead, though I'm the only person who has noticed. They're sipping their tea in the kitchen. Dad keeps coughing up maggots. Mum's face looks like a cracked mirror: I see myself in it, broken, dark. My brothers carry on as normal. They huddle by the TV,…

Bitter Bits

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Entropy/ has my number.

I'm a Clown in His Circus

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He called me Jay. I called him Dr Corvid. Until the very end, we lived alone. We had no use for any other companionship. I was Dr Corvid's finest achievement until he perfected his Disintegration Ray. I was the first working prototype of Project Novus.Dr Corvid created me…

Sleeping Bag Whiskey

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indelicate, as everything arrives at once.

The Truth Of Jello

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Franz Kafka opens the refrigerator And removes a bowl of jello With the face of Bella Abzug in it

Assiduity Twenty Seven

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" . . . with twinges of dread and pangs guilt, I worry . . . "

Tilt-a-Whirl

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the carnival ride hurtles the spinning man over canyons of light and barkers & streams of cotton candy girls

Where We Come From

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Where We Come From (ver. 2.0) (Leadwood, Missouri pop. 1,200) I Matt lit a joint here driving beneath the arms of dying trees The moon shone through in jigsaw puzzles that we could never quite figure out Gravel crackled like leaves in fire …

See?

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look at the shape here / is it not pleasing to the eye?

Isn't It Funny How Some People Don't Think They're Contemptibly Stupid?

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Loch Traignarry Light

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The Traignarry Light Preservation Society meets monthly, and welcomes visitors.

Safe

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Safe does not ride horses at sunsetSnorkel in MolokaiRaft down a swollen river.It does not steal kisses in a darkened theaterTouch the inside of a thigh under a restaurant table.Safe does not declare war.It chooses dinner every night at sixMass every SundayConfession once a…

Lovers on the Lawn

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One day, every girl I’ve ever slept with showed up on my lawn.