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Waves

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“still watersrun deep” is not my portionborn to make waves Formed from the ocean

The Swindler

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John Davies paces nervously around an empty parking lot...

A Tangled Web of Likes

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Liking up with the Joneses...

(Younger Driest)

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He did not seek a place on a cabinet, nor to impress stockholders with placards of wealth and return; he did not enumerate the downtrodden and asocial with advertised miracle treatments, or write a best seller on the markings of success. All he did, all h

Every Time It Happens

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Every time it happens, I think of Amber Heard and how hard you can be slapped without a bruise forming.

Friday Out

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Seeing her in black / with his arm around her / from the other side / of a glass door. / He gave her a beer. / She might’ve been thirsty, / uncomfortable.

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

Freakuccino

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The bus was almost empty, just me and an Asian girl who'd cleaned up some since I'd seen her. She was wearing a too-big T-shirt that said Freakuccino and writing in a notebook. If she remembered me she didn't say so I didn't either. Everybody sheds some…

Salzburg

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One night while in rehab I had a dream that I worked as a violin maker in Salzburg.

Shoot

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Dear Brandon Lee: I know that you're dead and can't respond to letters, but I've always felt a connection to you.

aromatic

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this bleeding sun, clove studded & seedless

The Umbrella

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I Liquidate My Assets

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My businessman does as his nature allows him. He is so cute. All day long he makes deals. He is on his phone most of the time. He raises his voice. “Fuck those fuckers, just do it,” is what he says. My businessman hedges risk on his investments by keeping…

Face to Face

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The face had become a chilling death mask.

Whip Poor Will

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Save your delirium...

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. …

In the Chambers of the End

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Tiny skiers look like beetles/on a white bedspread. /We watch them fall to earth from/the high peaks and tell ourselves this is the week that sealed it

Stellar

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After our first kiss, a team of scientists scrubbed away the cancer of your lipstick.

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…

The Lioness For Real

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you happen to me like motorcycle tricks

Atrocities

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My table offers up the gutted calf/ with carrots and potatoes yanked / alive and whole

Blue Crabs

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The perfect murder, and it’s not even murder.

Weaving the Way

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Yellows and reds shed warp and weft bobbins of color spooling...

In the Air Tonight

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But that last night in Europe, getting ready to fly out of Amsterdam back to the States, I heard this Phil Collins song, “In the Air Tonight,” which expressed some of the turmoil and confusion and whole-life hysteria I was feeling inside. Waves of fru

The Cure for Cancer

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Thus, more people can drown// and leave their bones

Monogamy

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cummings starts to sniff, his usual routine. He feigns aloofness while raising one wolfy leg to pee on Eliot's sneakers.

Third Shift

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Some great, doubtless precious; some hollow, likely empty; some only shards, but you never know...

Kaddish

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Summer nights or frozen winter, the crackles of his black.

rewind...

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here’s the deal… sorrow follows tears… pain later for the happiness now… is the joy something we only borrow…?

Matchbox Car

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Clatters and clatters ensued, and the splash destroyed all denial.