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Need

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I need some fantastic news. I need some happy news. I need to feel happy. Need Fantastic Need Fantastical Need News Need Happy need happy news make happy news happy make ake

Chapter 1

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“The King,” he paused, pursed his lips, looked across the crowd of eager and fearful citizens of Ki, “is dead!”

Path

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a man sees salamander bands / a-cracklin on the scree

The Invitation

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The poet could not speak of himself but only of the gradations leading toward him and away. ~ Mark Strand

'Is This a Problem?'

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London, England. 1999.

The Confession

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I can trust you with my secrets, can’t I?

The Truth

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I want you to tell me the truth, she said. The whole fucking truth.

Lovers on the Lawn

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

flash non-fiction

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It was the sweetest relationship I've ever had.

Resolution

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You say you want a resolution Well, I got one Let's start with nothing at all No logic, no war, no whiskey or bombs

Ways of Seeing: Carracci

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I have become interested in Carracci / Ludovico Carracci

Lunch With Harriet

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she felt something warm and wet on her ankle and it was producer #1's green tongue and he was still sitting down behind the table and it traveled slickly and caressed her calf with a sensuousness she wouldn't have thought something so ugly could possess

Me and Coleridge Take a Spin in the Phlegethon

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Like so many high school drugheads I warmed up to Coleridge because he was an dope fiend. If you want to get young men interested in poetry it helps if you lure them to the art through controlled substances.

Unintentional Hermits/ Animal Cities- The Bubble Dancer

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Gaston could remember the first time he set eyes on Deno. He'd gone into the back of the house to enquire after a lost order and found himself face to face with the dish washer, a man in his late 20s, dual heritage, tall, staring eyes and dangling useless hands. The…

Hal and Estelle

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They had both discovered, though, that when people stared at them now, away from the carnival, it was very different. There, they were supposed to be odd, it was what people expected. Here, they were supposed to fit in.

The Judge's Wife Part 3

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Everything clicked.

Weeds

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on cd I make john hiatt does not smash perfectly good guitar

Up & Down Stairs

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Nature has patience.

Joel, I'm Not A Concept

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Email flash: Kate Winslet is separated hope wells in dry souls

Molotov Cocktail Poems

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The new theaters require C-4 poems

Ish

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The feline apotheosis of Ish - Shroedinger’s cat.

Give Back the Moon

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to us! Without it we are less than human and cannot guarantee your safe passage through our woods any more. Give us back the moon. It is the primary element in the makeup of our deepest breaths taken to invoke all cycles to continue. It contains…

Du Fu's spring scene

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state a shambles, mountains and rivers endure./meanwhile, the city hides amidst spring's thick growth . . .

At the Station on the Steppes

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The condemned, arrested/ and convicted as a consequence/ of cheerlessness, must be prepared

Rocket

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It's hard not to sound dramatic when you begin a letter "On Earth..."

Memoir 2.3

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Coffee comes in KCups and you can't fight five wars at the same time.

Museum Pieces

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The lecturers are retired professors from Oxford or Cambridge. They are snarky and wise and aloof.

Bookmark

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He opened an old book,flipping through its yellowedpages. A small piece of blue paperfell to the floor; he picked it up."Meet Tom at 4:00. Julius Bar."Standing there, Tom appearedas he sat down with the note,putting Tom back together:Tall, he remembered; Irish,green eyes…

The Shaker

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A man and a woman argued over the size of the quake. They were sitting on the floor like Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

Kintsukuroi

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The scared woman, she hides her flaws from the world.