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He was triply satisfied: he’d come twice and he was a damn good-looking man.
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Most people come to dislike me because of the things I say.
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this elegant silver wrench/
which from the opposite side/
becomes a golden Phillips-head
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the poems/
we never got to will remain,
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I once saw a TV commercial that showed a group of Anglo retirees laughing around a card table. The slogan 60 is the new 20 floated beneath their fat, fun-loving heads. My parents are bona fide Baby Boomers. Their lives are build on credit and catchy…
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The whole scene smells like paranoia.
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I arrange my stones in circles
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I even listen to the Ugly Kid Joe version. I fall asleep perplexed and disheartened.
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For the camera
she smiles
otherwise not
and
only when she is
standing beside him
But for the camera?
for the crowd
for posterity
yes
For their children
for the future?
yes, again yes
a thousand times
until her face
be
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Normally, after her shift, Linda would make herself a latte, untie her apron, and study at one of the tables. That evening, however, KEXP kept playing songs with grating guitar riffs, and loud laughers were everywhere. She chugged her coffee, burning her tongue. Then, she…
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we can say all we couldn’t say
when the ears could hear us
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“All I want,” he was heard to say, “is a date with a really
good-looking woman before I go away.”
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Happens at a party, this way, past frat boys
perched in branches like idiot hoot owls,
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There are times when she is heavy and times when she is light.
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I'd like to grow you a new flower. I thinkmaybe I just will. Right now. Here's as good a place as any. Well you'll probably never get to see it, but it will be there just the same and it will be all yours. Kind of like these poems that I make if…
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There are some I don’t recognize. My gaze lingers for a second. It’s bad business this.
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In the small towns of central and southern Illinois there lives a very indecent sort of man.
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Damn, the light turned
green
on me.
Wasn't ready.
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She was sitting in her swivel chair talking to a girl who was her younger image, ...
“Well, there you go, I’m a fire sign and you’re an earth. That’s just the way it is.”
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By lunch:
The dryer is an F-5 dervish of mismatched socks, blue jeans and your yellowing college T's, lovingly held onto. For a moment there is a comforting warmth and softness to their smell. In the debris strewn landscape of the living room a carcass
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I dreamt, said the Donkey, of an apricot. An apricot the size of a heart. …
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NO ONE CAN BE A BASTARD FOREVER
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They've put down roots under the dome. Want to push through the ceiling, blot out the sun. I have other plans.
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Frank cut the tip of his finger off and it sort of shot over to the lettuce bin. The blood pumped out in tiny jets as he covered it with the palm of his other hand and ran to the sink. He pointed it in the sink and turned the water on, he could see…
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Miller exclaimed "Somebody give me a cheeseburger!"--a line from one of his hits--and members of the Academy broke out in knowing if subdued laughter.
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In the end, he knew he wasn’t going home.
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Last night was full of little fists
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Our half-life, radioactive decay, particles shed leaving dust and bone."twilight years", "golden age", "evening of life"?Bullshit. I'm not ready to stop pumping high octane.You said, "I'll take you to Paris."Hemingway's address is still in your notebook, I saw it.I'll wear…
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while the fat stars stand out in the cobalt night.
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