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If Mad Dog were interrogated by female U.S. forces in a combat-riven no-woman’s-land to see if he was really an American, he couldn’t name the most recent WNBA champion.
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After our first kiss,
a team of scientists
scrubbed away the cancer
of your lipstick.
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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
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You watch with frigid eyes, as their soggy woolens squelch dark mud, even smiling a little as they make croaking frog-lure noises. You know eventually a toad or two would land in the Frogger. You like the word Frogger.
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You sleep. The time is soft and slow.
Your dreams are covered with the snow.
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An infested, indifferent universe . . .
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each act of creation is a jolt of expectation
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Unless they leave you comatose,/
it’s the disasters you remember.
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Crass, vulgar, boorish, impaired, angry, depressed, jealous, regretful.
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Due to recent enhancements to our billing system, the rate per unit for your basic service can no longer be determined.
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To conceive of them separated was unthinkable to every wet-eyed soul at the burial.
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Prayer: Cold prayers in her throat, so far all unanswered. This thing grows steadily, unmistakably, cobbling counterfeit cells and flesh together into an unspeakable mass.
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"That it was my stepdad's fault."
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One night while in rehab I had a dream that I worked as a violin maker in Salzburg.
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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.
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Sometimes I had the time right, and sometimes the place; that day, they came together.
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Once in a while I have the time of my life /
in this god-forsaken Earth:
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if i could i would leave/ my beating heart like flowers/ pumping blood upon your doorstep/ in gory testament/ to the way you make me feel.
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The morning news.
The birthday present you bought me.
This poem.
My hair when I wake up in the morning, at any given point in the day.
Pigeon pose.
My singing voice.
How much I love myself.
Coffee.
Sex.
Not having sex.
Having movie star sex.
Ha
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We'll all face the raging river, some sooner than others.
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I awake to find a heavy chain shackled around my ankle. I try to remove it but cannot. The length of the chain runs through my apartment, sometimes coiling around itself, but eventually leading out my front door.
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Mari thinks that's all fine and fucking dandy.
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I remember, when I was selling real estate, how you could always tell when there'd been a divorce. One room was conspicuously left emptied of its contents, and these rooms were never swept or tidied. Instead they were left just as they were when the par
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Lester walked back into the house. He was hungry but didn’t know what he wanted to eat. Really, he couldn’t remember how to fix anything he wanted. He walked over to turn on the television, but couldn’t find the on/off button. Surely the damn thing had an
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This is the record of a drowning.
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the small break of consciousness that is my dreamswaterso much wateri can never forgive the watertoo many tears
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Summer nights or frozen
winter, the crackles of his black.
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The elephant was breakable and I know that my grandmother held her breath every time I went near it, and I was repeatedly cautioned that it was not to be played with only admired. She taught me in her own way, respect for it. She may have commented on the green with a bit…
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This is what happens when a writer falls in love...
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