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They watch her, scald her skin with hot eyes whose stares run up and down her body like lice.
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Girolamo Dente was nodding off in his studio at Découvrir Art when he heard the alarm.
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I saw three kids the other day, two girls and a boy, crouched in conspiracy
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only thoughts lost in lonely trails of red
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in the pink distance / a boy in a corduroy shirt / sits before an upended electrical spindle / and drinks a vodka gimlet
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Something’s been eating at my craw. I’m just going to go ahead and spill it all out. You ever hear about Poetry Whores? Well, let me tell you a little about them, because if I don’t, then who will? I’m not going to name names. You can pretty much guess
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Jimi and Janis remain fierce and beautiful
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Quickly enough, it became clear, however, that this was really all about offers you could not refuse, allegations you could not contest, arrests you could not understand and acts you would not survive.
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You wouldn’t believe an organ the size of a heart could scream like a nine-year-old sissy girl but mine did.
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One by one the hundred matte black drones hummed awake. The buzz was loud on the tiny airfield but died out soon among the waving amber heads of Kansas wheat that surrounded the unsigned base.
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April spit its greeting, toe to head.
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Some of the elderly men and women are coming forward....
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the darkness held frieghtened by the surveillance of a distant white shimmer.
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By the time the forked tongue of the flag extended flat like it was pressed between two of my thick volumes on weather forecasting, the man was still walking with his nose glued to the ground.
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Violet goes with her mother to the home, delivering cookies to old folks. She's getting to hate how she goes along with everything her mother asks. Some of her friends are rebelling already, and Violet feels something under her skin. It's still just a dark shape, lurking…
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I know I used to say I’d rather walk on the moon with my own rapacity. And you can easily say things like that, given the luxuriance of youth. But it was a lie, if you want to know the truth. That is only so much hot balloon air, puffed up in the chest,
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if you have a key fob, you are fired. If you have a real set of keys, you can stay
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" . . . the government works for the aliens now, taking over the world. That's why everything's so screwed up."
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Franz Kafka opens the refrigerator
And removes a bowl of jello
With the face of Bella Abzug in it
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We may sniff a gush of something
in the rush of heat round a petrol bomb.
Or reap a gift from the
cracked head of a hero.
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The model takes off her clothes and poses nude for our class. We draw her likeness on paper.
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A gentle man,
and a fierce woman,
charmed one another
in a shaded gazebo.
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I’m just your ordinary poem,
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her expressive sigh releasing. Sated. The last of our kind, evolving flightless we remain on the ground, culling through corpulent consumption.
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It's weird to be here. I wonder if you are here too. You'd probably say oh that was years ago. And you would be right. But I like the things we believed in then. Some of them I still do. You're old I guess. You were so pretty and golden in your…
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The retired, widowed receptionist slapped one hand to the base of her throat with a gasp . . .
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Her name was Christine
and she was nailed to the cross
of their lust
and their greed,
and their vengeance
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square mannequin-wives who can’t look in their eyes
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