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Yes, A Dream

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...the completeness of pleasure tantamount to the end of all process...

Art Class

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The model takes off her clothes and poses nude for our class. We draw her likeness on paper.

No More

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Dawn is a grey mass, what is left of the night's chill slips between my t-shirt and belly skin. Somewhere else you once wrote that being loved when you don't love in return equals rape.

Wonkie Eye

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The bad optical, crossed or dead or lazy or stray

D(evolution)

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or. Have you ever contemplated smashing someone's face to The Stooges' Fun House?

My Brother's Bedroom

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they say the sense of smell is the strongest sense connected to memory, but not for me

Miranda

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...cinched the handcuffs.

Tuna

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Falling asleep remembering lies that had been built around lies Lies to impress people Lies to make life more convenient Lies, I didn’t even know why I told them.

A Tale

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But you don’t know how to fly, Bunny! How ever will we survive?

Postcards from a Private Park

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First movement I. The town that I…

We're all Mad here. I'm Mad. You're Mad!

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She heard the quick footsteps and knew where they were headed. Running down the hall she knew she “only had 1 hour left and there was no time to waste”.

Morning Train

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..Sheena's not there to make my morning coffee and the brain cells I feel slowly dying are not expiring because of bad Aussie pop songs.

How did you get your second Silver Star

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No one told us that the LZ was already hot and the last Combat Mobile Team had already been shot down and killed. No, no one told us that. So when we came in below about 500 feet I began to hear that "pitit" sound of AK-47 rounds going right through the f

Seamstress

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The cab split the thread of oncoming traffic into water barrels and telephone poles.

Portrait of the Author as a Poet

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I am an awful poet.

Arcana Magi Fifth World - Part 1

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As the four flew beside each other, they shared their stories and got to know one another. Soon they learned from the voice what was happening.

The Wild Silence: Intro

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He huddles against the wooden beam of a chop suey stand, glaring out into the giant technological organism that was his city. Lights, hulking monstrosities and endless possibilities were teeming in the night-hustle that surrounded him.

An ode to ill-used apostrophe’s

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Fragment’s of ignorance strewn by a haphazard hand

moon/light

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the cue & flash

The Ridgeline: Day 1

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The first burned slowly in the distance. I built a small fire to keep warm. Snow covered the area as far as the eye could see. The sun burned bright in the sky above and the mountains disappeared onto the horizon. My gear had some wear and tear from t

Table Talk

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Her voice gets screechy as she talks of the boy he was caught fondling in the bathroom of a bowling alley. The worst part: the dumb schmuck doesn’t even bowl.

The Little Apartment

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In the end they talked a lot, shared what they could, both seemingly trying to rekindle something that was no longer hot, and yet they could not let go of each other. Year after year would prove that. Right then, just then, it seemed that the physical par

Weeds

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on cd I make john hiatt does not smash perfectly good guitar

When The Sun Goes Down

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Though his heart aches his melody seems to flow It creeps into the dreams of all in slumber in the valley below

Laundromat Haiku

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Laundromat

Marion

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Gibson Park, underneath the grove of trees beside the soccer field. She's buried. But don't say anything yet. Her disappearance will make the news shortly, but it hasn't yet.

Quantum Quandary

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I love the notion of uncertainty-/ which seems inherent/ at the level of particles-

AUTUMN LEAVES UNDERFOOT

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Goodbye comes in stages. At first you recognize that you will “miss” someone when they are gone. Then you have to accept the fact that they are leaving. And finally accept the fact that they are gone; and not particularly in that order. If only it

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Then I am in Washington DC impersonating an accountant.

Unreasonability

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kindergarteners sent to class with Uzis