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Weed Fire

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Wind was a sorry excuse for force

i've worn it like a trophy all day

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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.

Edward Ogle the Ninth

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Vanilla bean trampoline

One in the Numberless Series of Requiems

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We perform our chosen duty— naming/ beauties and atrocities within

Bearable

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"Don't be dense."

Cabinet

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In the morning I listen through an ear-trumpet

The Wedding

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Anneliese inserted one of her crystal drops in Hymen's left ear and kept her left earring in. For a quarter, she bought a handful of cashews and plopped them on a red napkin.

It's Like That

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Like the term rogue cop

Into the Mirror

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Her eyes still fixed on him as if to whisper her concerns of fidelity.

Sorry

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...society has tampered with its denotation so much that it is almost incomprehensible without context.

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

Cats

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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.

Forever KAP

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She mustn't...

Noir vs. Noir

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You're sitting in a darkened theatre with Gothic ceilings and one exit watching the latest Alan Ladd film with William Bendix and Veronica Lake.

Upwards, Into the White Eye Rising (Parts 1-3)

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The Argument: A couple of young female lovers, one slightly older than the other one, decide to part ways. The elder has contracted a terminal illness, and they decide the best way to part ways would be by joining together through a suicide pact.…

Thessaloniki Summer Visit

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What I learned/one summer/in the North East/Thessaloniki heat was. . . .

Suicide Consulting Hotline

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We exist to facilitate/ successful conclusions of hopeless lives.

5 Poems In The Shape Of Other Poems

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the things we will accomplish, the things we will leave to others

The Eyes

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I've never liked kind eyes;I prefer drive.Or fire.And when a woman's eyes are described as "doe,"I hear "dumb."Like an animal.

Quintet in a Natural Key

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I like the cool and dark beneath my rock./ It protects me from the glare and scorch/ of noonday sun and the chilling shadows/ of midnight moon.

Story to Forget

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The white Boeing 747, all three hundred and sixty eight seats of it, prepared to depart from Johannesburg Airport. Mild conditions on a clear flight path coupled with the soothing voice of the first officer didn't allay my unease. I offered a friendly nod to the…

Induce Me

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Life's a beach? A bitch? Same thing.

Getaway

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She’d picked him up at a party freshman year, calling him Danny. Until then he had always been Daniel. He’d said nothing and his name was changed.

Mercury Unbound - 2

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An infested, indifferent universe . . .

Shark

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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…

Bare Ruined Palace

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Every encounter is a dance, every secret has its key

New Year's Eve, 1975

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contacts, false eyelashes, strappy open-toed sandals

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.

Off Shoots

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My name is Lassie.

In the Woods

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...come come come come...