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Gymnopedies

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Does sound shape silence/ or silence shape sound?

Fragment from an Unwritten Diary

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It's not stories the quiet lack, but inclination...

by the sound of it

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cicadas run our furnace

Getting Out

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“We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.

A Flat Sheet and One Standard Pillowcase

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

Sorrow

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It's not a funeral. Nobody to mourn over.

A Conversation on an Empty Balcony

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I go with the wind, like the smoke of this Marlboro red as it dances among the palm trees.

Five Million Yen: Chapter 32

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

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…

Blonde on Blonde

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Happens at a party, this way, past frat boys perched in branches like idiot hoot owls,

The Rat, His Treadwheel

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The rat had been informed, assured, cajoled in order to gain his assent—duly lied to, in other words, by the researchers with not one tear of remorse, with no smudge or smear of conscience . . .

Rapid Transit

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We’re on The Worm. I dread the part where the train goes under the bay. I hold my breath until we safely emerge.

How To Give Dating Advice as a State Social Worker

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I tell him if he wants to impress a girl he should learn to cook. He shifts his body. I add, crab cakes work well.

The Oral Tradition

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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.

Decoy

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No one saw him arrive at the half-moon garden just south of Delancey, no one saw him hang his cage from one of the drainage pipes, but by the time the rest of us got there, the bamboo frame was already covered with silky, golden cloth that reflected the e

Bardo

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In the quiet dark, fathers reappear.

Call to Arms

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I call upon all cashiers in dungarees... I call upon the baristas in rags... I call upon those whose sinister principles tax the weakness of their conscience... I call upon all those deracinated by dreaming big...

(Yet Another) Mask

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In frustration, he picked up a hammer and slammed it straight into the center of the mask.

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

Event Particle

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She is a manifold of temporal flows.

YMCA

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absolute bullshit

My Flying Debris

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a book of 5 poem-like things I made out of silly string and shot your way when you weren't exactly looking "..kisses are a far better fate/than wisdom."--E.E.CummingsContents:1.The Day's Thin Blue Swim-Suit2. The One Who Needed Let In Most3. I…

THE REAL MAP

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When we crossed the California/Oregon border, I had this vivid image of sleeping bags filled with human bones. I shook my head and the scene would not go away. The woods must be full of dead campers, hitch hikers, run-a-ways, and black teenage whores

The Fall

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Tuesday is trash day.

Darkness On My Mind

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Darkness on my mind doesn't make me blind.

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…

Times Remembered

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Delightful days spent at the beach. Children building castles; as parents watched waves glistening under the afternoon sunlight. Sanderlings running with beaks down, hoping for a tasty morsel through the ebb and flow of tides. As time went by, briefcases,…

Politics

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These days, you seem to disappear like bread tasted and devoured

Desire

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Dark morning sleet whitecrusts the world once more, shrouds remains of January thaw: