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arrogant, sullen,/
supple and ambiguous,//
English seems the ideal tongue
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The Devil’s laugh was the screech of wind. Ignacio Carillo heard Him as he dug the grave that would hold the body of his beloved wife.
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Everyone is tromping around in work boots like an army of happy gardeners. The park is smiling from all this attention, from the sound of kids who think work is play. It's not even sunny but we don't mind. I know you don't. Grey days are just as good. They've…
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I slept and it was pleasant. Then there was the kiss, and it was hot. Later you turned away, and all was November chill. Now there are touches, caresses and shouts, Marvelous nights flavored with favors bestowed, and blackened days,…
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I saw three kids the other day, two girls and a boy, crouched in conspiracy
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this bleeding sun, clove studded & seedless
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Azure lowered her head, nearly burying it in the window, watching the helicopter land.
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141463
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" . . . the government works for the aliens now, taking over the world. That's why everything's so screwed up."
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On the beaches in the summer the fine hair rose up from under the material of your bikini and swirled around your deep navel, almost invisible to the naked eye, but not to the mind, which imagines everything funneling down into the center of your being,
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141422
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I am young. This is years before I start to hide my accent.
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You wouldn’t believe an organ the size of a heart could scream like a nine-year-old sissy girl but mine did.
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No, your clever costume won’t protect you.
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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."
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She is not centered, but she finds her way.
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141411
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I survived as a brave thought,
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Crouching like little children in a game of hide & seek, we entered the old house, slowly
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141322
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We wait for a server to bring our coconut cream pie. His favorite. I hate coconut.
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It was cold in the church. The Lutherans were freezing to death. The Catholics brought their winter coats.
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It seems that back in 1911, Kaiser Wilhelm came to this town
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He also looked at the tv with a detachment he sensed was dangerous and the sensation scared him so he ran into the kitchen and felt ashamed alone in the hot room and trembled.
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141333
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Better move ‘cause I hear them comin’ up the other side.
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Every day from my window I saw John Brigham's dog making its way across my field. The dog picked carefully through the shorn corn stubble taking the same route, I'm guessing, it took when the stalks made a shaded rustling forest. There is a narrow path…
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I woke like an animal / breeding thoughts like flies
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His legs were pedaling hard and his heart was beating fast, He's got his scars; He can't outrun his past, Down the hill he goes, wind whipped his hair, a new style with each draft. He broke his brakes long ago; He cut the cable and ripped off the pads. He cried…
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He ordered a palace built, and the builders came to blows, which is why the father’s eyes have swollen shut, and the oldest son’s knuckles are bright plums.
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“It's a combination of ‘Survivor' and ‘College Bowl' says Sister Mary Agnesita, the show's host. “We take four very strict nuns and match them up with boys who were cut-ups in their grade school classes."
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Lights of human occupation burn/
in patterns like the growth/
of a bacillus, lethal and prodigious,
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141343
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Skulk like a lovespun spider in a record store corner
on the orange formica subway car
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In frustration, he picked up a hammer and slammed it straight into the center of the mask.
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One said 'Yes, I remember.' He was dark and tall and slender
A masterful pretender who laid roses on the floor
Appearing on the eve of morrow, so slow and full of sorrow
With a costume he did borrow, borrowed from the poet's lore
From the rare and rad
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