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Assiduity Eighteen

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A convoy of military vehicles is heading into the city as we are heading out.

Brexit

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Reams of saggy bunting intersect the streets.

Poem before Video Store

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Last night was full of little fists

The Hitler Channel

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The sound of a siren approaches his home. His wife asks him why he's so nervous. It's nothing, he says, but he rises from the couch and peers into the night from behind the curtains. The siren approaches relentlessly. The road twists and turns and the sound fades but always…

Five Million Yen: Chapter 32

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Wait a minute, said Ben. What do we really know?

Inheritance

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I blame you for my short temper when I go off the handle when my blood runs cold and I can't think straight I can only react. When I say things I don't mean Even if I do. But I am glad for the fire you started inside of me. That time I…

My Brother's House

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The last time my old lady threw me out, I decided to go and stay with my brother. I thought, "That's the last place I'll be welcome," and I knew that was true. The drive was calming, which was good, because Steven wouldn't have even let me in if I…

Famus Peepul

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Famus Peepul Ellen and her boy, Larson, were on the second floor of The Monsters restaurant, searching for the fortuneteller. Larson had decided her signature was a necessary addition to his autograph book. He hadn't asked for her autograph…

Zum is one instance of "um" herein

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Moving Out

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Lying in the blissful glow of young television. Idly sleeping, eyes open and ears closed.

WE WOKE UP LEAN

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We were careful not to wake the kids & goodbye with a handshake & my skeleton is trapped with your universe inside.

The Rider

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"The rider rode his bike in Arizona just about every day and for all the usual reasons....."

Kracton Commons

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Without light it is black.

Ave Maria: Part 6

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“I swear that man is a force of nature.” This was her mother's way of describing her father whenever her mother came too close to the precipice. While growing up, she could never allow herself to fully acknowledge the meaning behind her mother's…

A Flat Sheet and One Standard Pillowcase

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this is your hair, this is your stare, this is your voice

Monsters and Me

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Godzilla, Mothra, Kong, Rodan. Most people know these Giant Monsters through the movies. What the majority of the population doesn't understand is, that these are monsters are real. Like the myths of ancient times, these movies are just a way that our

ALL THOSE YEARS

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Joseph and his little brother, Kevin, were there again. Kevin was too small to understand what had happened yet. He would usually just go off, running around the statues and playing with the wreaths; the last time they'd visited he climbed a tree and broke one of the…

My Commencement Speech

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To The Graduates Of The Class Of 2010: You are here today at a critical crossroads of your life. For most of your 22 years you’ve been taught to work hard, obey the rules, listen with respect to your elders and to trust that every effort you make wil

Refugees

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Somebody left CNN on all night long until the news cycle flipped, crashed and burned in its own ruins

The Cowboy of My Heart

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I. The cowboy of my heart rides high in the saddle. Behind him, the long tail of his speeding palomino, golden — like the hair to the girls I was later to want so desperately — stands straight out from his sweating, muscular haunches. It's time.…

The Polish Worker

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... and that’s the story of the Polish worker who looks like van Gogh.

Dust to Dust

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He began to chop the powdery substance and separate it into segments.

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.

The Shirt Library

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I hate buying shirts. There's no point. You need a shirt, you go to the library.

The Buddhist

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She is not centered, but she finds her way.

bucket of keys

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I imaged him at his mother's house, eating chicken and tabouli with her at her round marble table, leaning back and laughing, then reading my “love you” and excusing himself to cry in the bathroom.

Shaken not stirred

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The warmth of the sun

Go Running Up That Hill

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Better move ‘cause I hear them comin’ up the other side.

A New Thing

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I am trying very hard to rhyme, and trying very hard not to.

our ragged wits, ragged minds

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Our ragged wits, ragged minds, after acting out all, imitating all honey-like tunes, air song, excellence of song, true flower of the world. So the sun has some of its honey wintered away, to bring it into contact with such a human voice as yours.