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Poems reflect their poets. /
Mine: ugly but loved. /
It is just as well.
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131911
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I noticed Sean changed after his grounding. We no longer played night soldiers around the block, no longer biked to the creek to catch crayfish he'd crush with his boots. Sean stopped hunting lizards, stopped charging smaller kids toll to pass…
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131931
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My first time alone with the women in Saudi Arabia...
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131985
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From words to meaning― how complicated it is.
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1319158
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But even if the truth
Never sets me free
I'll know this ain't the end of me
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131910
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kindergarteners
sent to class with
Uzis
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131822
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All the baby monsters are being born on stage.
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131874
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An eternity in a crashing moment.
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131843
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Nature is perfect... We can never learn that much
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131845
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She arranged to have an abortion at a doctor Greene’s office, who practiced out of a converted house on Solano Avenue on the north side of Berkeley. I took her there the day of the procedure. You couldn’t go to a regular hospital to have this kind of thi
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131853
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you look like
the insides of my cheeks
chewed.
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131821
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She said it feels wrong. Too wet, she said. I snickered, she smacked.
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131851
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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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131898
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we’ll never win/
the ongoing battle with dirt.
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131821
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“The minute I stopped wondering about
the meaning of life is when I
finally started enjoying life.”
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131843
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destroy the day
rip up the track
jump in the water
eat nothing but bugs
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131843
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See the hair
Know the hair
Remove the hair
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131841
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A bum leaves his shopping cart
in the middle of the intersection
at 7th Ave and Perry St
and walks away
leaving everything behind
Shopping cart gets hit
by an onslaught of
yellow taxis whizzing by
The contents flying out
into the hum
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131832
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I’m sorry. We couldn’t fix the country
and left her a bigger mess than we found her
Oil leaking from her shores
earthquake batter all over her skin
We couldn’t fix her, and we’re sorry
You’ll find her wreck in tatters
at the bus st
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131877
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I saw the shiny dime . . . .
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131823
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I even listen to the Ugly Kid Joe version. I fall asleep perplexed and disheartened.
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131887
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I'll always remember those warm, weekend twilights on the beach after the frolic of the waves seemed to flatten with the impending dusk, sending the surfers home and, after the bait was spent, sending the surfcasters away, I'd claim a square of sand as my stage,…
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131822
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"Which way ought we to go from here," he asked.
She smiled again, "that all depends on where we want to get to." He nodded but didn't laugh so she sighed and strolled around the room, tuning and looking and considering her options.
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131832
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The young monk rose early to jog,
his appetites trailing like
cats in heat.
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1317179
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The cornbread for dressing cools./
The cranberries boil with one cup each/
of sugar and water. The aromas are nice
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131710
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at the front of the bus/ sways a white-veiled woman:/ gnarled hands upon/ a bag of palms,
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131700
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Creatures of the dark don’t follow daylight savings
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131722
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Why do you lie? the old woman repeats when her mouth is not busy filling the waste bin. We sit as far away from her wheedle and wretch as the small waiting room allows. A young woman glares at us through the mental health clinic's safety glass…
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far beyond the far beyond
sparkles the stars like sparkles
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131755
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The boy stared out his window, noting the suns slow and eventual passing behind the distant mountains. He saw his face reflected in the window pane and turned away. His shadow loomed…
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