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Flowing, Flown

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Flowing, Flown In the field stands a jealous man with fifteen eyes stored inside the cuffs of well-worn khaki pants. His pockets pull with clinking dimes…

Random Little Linguistic Discharges

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Eat the Body/ Drink the Blood/ Perfect the sacrifice,

Allergic Reaction

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On his way to his first fishing expedition in the Bay Area, the man remembered the rustle and shimmer of the willows by the muddied Jemez River in New Mexico, cold beer, the clean camaraderie of childhood friends. He walked along a path choked with greenery to the San Pablo…

Losses in Translation

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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.

Cairn

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Your cairns/ are litter in the streets

On Display

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Richard gets me started, tells me to undress the two women mannequins in the storefront window

Stellar

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

Mating for Life

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Mari thinks that's all fine and fucking dandy.

Yet More from The Chronicles of His Demise

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The Muse//has used/ me up

All Wet

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the small break of consciousness that is my dreamswaterso much wateri can never forgive the watertoo many tears

Lunar Hypnotism

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You sleep. The time is soft and slow. Your dreams are covered with the snow.

Elementary

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He, an irregular chap, Was known for his hat with a flap. Had fleet feet and a very strong back.

Head in the Clouds

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Damn, the light turned green on me. Wasn't ready.

Gabe

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“Damn!” he said to himself, wondering for the millionth time what he was doing in such a sad line of work. Break time, he decided, grabbing his stash box and locking himself into the freezing cold bathroom to smoke a joint. He emerged thirty minutes la

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…?

Somebody Loves You

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When I look at the picture on my refrigerator, I always think the same thing: "Hitler was a baby once too, look how well he turned out."

"Daddy, Can You Find the Cheerios?"

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Why, these were the young hands that I kissed only last night.

Damaged Goods

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As she slunk to her topless Mercedes sparkling curbside, wax job hand rubbed in Hamburg, testosterone heads turned wishing similar treatment.

Zin Is Not a True Vegetarian

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She wakes up lip-syncing the remnants of a dream: the throb of cherry blossoms, the whine of lotus flowers.

Model Home

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In the living room of a model home, Mr. Jorgensen lived. He was a mannequin. He spent his days in display windows. He spent his commutes displaying the latest model cars.

Blank Inside

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She remembers the days when she could have purchased every card in the store and found the words to fill them all.

Sunday Morning Series- 4: Roast Lamb of God

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Squeeze the Word into Flesh

Not Writing

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I don't look like other poets. / People hardly believe it when I say / "I write poetry, sometimes. / During lonely evenings."

Mercury Unbound - 2

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An infested, indifferent universe . . .

The First Fifth

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The first time that Beethoven’s Fifth was played, people ran into the streets.

The New Girl

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She’s new, with the enthusiasm of a new person. And everyone wants the new girl.

Vanishing Vapors with Mister Van Gogh

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These clouds are what I havewith me. Their language is minebut it is drying today aswe speak. I catch the darkeningsparks, but that's not to beyour concern. I am sure youshall go on. What I wantis to deliver your song. Idoubt it is for anybody else.Clouds are good at…

Nineveh

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My heart was a puzzle completely incomplete, until I learned of love in your embrace.

S.K.O.S.O. vs T.O.O.T.H. (With an update on Jinni of T.O.O.T.H.)

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"What have I done? What in God's name possessed me? Confessions of some college trouble in the 60's.

bloodletting and the strobe of hearts

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the injured color wheel of the world