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Event Particle

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She is a manifold of temporal flows.

Do the Shogun Moon

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Heel to toe, our bunions are our ingrown medals.

If Only it Were So

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In the moment I crinkle the aluminum foil, The sandwich now a deeper Part of me

Me and Not Me

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Is there a homunculus in my brain guiding everything like the pilot of an airliner?

Shame On 34th Street

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This tanka poem was inspired by news report that the Macy's of "Miracle on 34th Street" fame has a white Santa in front and a black Santa in back.

A little bit of babysitting

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Roy Williams was his real name. It had been for the last 15 years. Since retiring from the Firm he’d lived innocuously in an apartment near the Old City walls of Dubrovnik doing the occasional quick job for them. You never entirely retired from the Firm.

If. You. Speak.

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The one at dusk is not the one you met this morning. That one's gone like a head in the window.

JOSEPH YOUNG

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JOSEPH YOUNG Joseph Young You might start with the top of the head, where the heat goes. This is first, first from the womb, the first word. Joseph Young There might have been a faith that placed it in the mouth, not the…

Them, Not Us

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We hold fast to the bed’s corners, afraid our bodies, these new old bodies, have forgotten how to love in its center.

Next Time, Academics

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I suggested when we passed the flesh shack that we turn around and that I go in and say to the sex workers that the Russians are fetching $3.5K per hour in Manhattan and it's private, unlike there at that road-side shack.

The Raging River

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We'll all face the raging river, some sooner than others.

Cardiovascular

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circumstances// squeeze the heart so hard/ that you should die but don’t.

Editing Academic Papers at 2AM

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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...

In an Irish pub with a lot of oiled wood

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“I love women. They’re like goddesses.”

1973, what I wanted

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Not the torn magazine page, not the smell of ink, not the sweat of palm nor the froth of irish spring

The Night She Took Her Dignity Back

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She had endured three years of abuse for those hot, fleeting moments of tenderness—just enough warmth to keep her second-guessing the bitter frost. Now the ring promised a lifetime of biting back her pain.

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 . . .

Beehive

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Like when she said the word 'but', it came out ‘bet’.

Gun Play

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The guy – it’s Billy Krazik - turns and aims at Jamie Stockwell, sitting there calmly as if he’s in the play or something and he takes two to the head.

End Time

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and you fall down.

Be Afraid

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Everything conspires to kill you:

Double Vision

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To conceive of them separated was unthinkable to every wet-eyed soul at the burial.

The Conversion

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She became suited to herself only. She no longer tried in any way to fit, she fought the molds they created and kept moving in her own direction. Often forward, sometimes a bit backward, and she rightly scaled her own Mt. Olympus and there she sat with he

Advice To A Young Poet

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Touch these words with your mind. They will create an elephant with an unidentifiable itch.

BLT

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I had a sister-in-law who was a licensed nutritionist. Not sure what “licensed” means, but she had some certificate and worked in a hospital. Hospitals! Places not known for their cuisine, much less their nutrition. —So, what do you…

Puppet X, 2

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It's important to sound human, I know To get fragile near your mother I myself get glimpses now and then

Monsters Happen

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Dee startled awake from the dream, sat up in bed and looked around the room. The dream came back--hazy, yet clearer by the second. Dee had been warning the girl in her dream that he was a monster; that she shouldn't talk to him, should stay far away from him. …

Mr. Feisty Mischievous

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His nervous cackle makes me sick - Oh, if only - Times were different - That knife - Would fit so nicely in his back

Hot Flashes

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On high a centaur is pulling a yellow chicken on a sled.

Anger

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Well, now it has fallen away some but I felt better about it when it was raging