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To stop myself from imagining myself/ kissing you on your face, feeling your/
eyelashes on my lips as I pass over them,/
I imagine myself murdering you with/
an axe instead...
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Frank left Michiko’s building and walked into Central Park.
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I look as sympathetic as I can, under the circumstance, which is entirely unsympathetic.
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Winter will be cold this year, you tell her. You read that. She says she is with child with her new husband. You tell her she's forty-five, it is selfish. The baby. It's fine. You demand to be at her tests. Evan may let you, she says. He's a doll. She would never use that…
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Her plastic shopping bag brushes your leg. You look into it and all you see is a 2 liter of Coke, a bag of Lay’s potato chips and a package of Oreos. It’s so oddly touching, so purely American, that your heart breaks a little bit. You want to hug t
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The condemned, arrested/
and convicted as a consequence/
of cheerlessness, must be prepared
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It was a bright day in April, the cruelest month, and the gears and pumps of the train beat on into the still air.
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Every night I say "I dream about you all the time, Nae Ann," but the truth is I don't. I dream about stupid crap at work like air filters for a 2006 Mazda RX-8 GT.
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--"Look at us," she murmurs. "Tristan and Isolde without the adultery."
--"Well, you can't have everything."
--"No? I heard otherwise."
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When exactly does cheese go bad? it simply does not, I say.
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look at the shape here / is it not pleasing to the eye?
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Our entire planet became poisoned by the monoculture system of agriculture.
Mother Earth, who is the very soil we stand on, play on, dig in; Mother Earth, who is the very air we breathe, laugh in, talk in; Mother Earth, who is the very streams, river
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People act, today, as if there were no such thing as Death - i.e. they "psychotically" reify the notion that we "live on" in our work or more pointedly/poignantly in our offspring and in society qua Creation. This tendency was half present in the old Greeks - the …
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Your tunamelt cadence / Sank me to ocean floors
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Unless they leave you comatose,/
it’s the disasters you remember.
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Coffee comes in KCups and you can't fight five wars at the same time.
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and you imagine euthanizing them if what she says is true, that she is leaving them to you in her will.
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One day, every girl I’ve ever slept with showed up on my lawn.
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He saw places that he hadn't thought existed. He found his analog from 17,000 years ago praying inside of a white pyramid in Kathmandu, and saw how the fireballs being catapulted through the air outside were stopped in midair by a beam coming from the top
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I hand one of them the octopus and run out of the room.
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IV. Upwards, into the white eye rising, There is will, to stay, yet stays no will to be. Come,…
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One/
can’t always trust the eye and ear//
in such matters but what can one do?/
Mistakes will be made.
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the burning thrusts/
of yellow in defiance of the frost
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For weeks they used every medium to say: This day will be an end or a beginning.
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we can say all we couldn’t say
when the ears could hear us
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My table offers up the gutted calf/
with carrots and potatoes yanked /
alive and whole
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Even mockingbirds are scarce;
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The bird sat there some time. Several minutes. My wife and I grabbed out i-Pads and took pictures.
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A bridge not satisfied with just crossing the river - It slashed through the sky, crashed through nature - Creating a new nature, a double-decker
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John Davies paces nervously around an empty parking lot...
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