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The Little Apartment

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In the end they talked a lot, shared what they could, both seemingly trying to rekindle something that was no longer hot, and yet they could not let go of each other. Year after year would prove that. Right then, just then, it seemed that the physical par

two hendecasyllabic verse notes for Mr. S.

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mind heart soul will blood sweat tears muscle, and bone,/and then always something else—not more, just else . . .

The Artist Wannabe

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Hot Weather

November

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You sleep in equative lip biting slumber hugging a pillow you think is someone else.

The Day I Discovered, Followed The Night I Realised

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Nature is perfect... We can never learn that much

He is dying

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His only sibling had passed a few years back and his mother was the only one left of a gaggle of 7 brothers and sisters and their spouses. The turning of the generations, from birth to grave, was always a bit like the tilling of the ancestral soil. A new

Chapel of a Latter Day Agoraphobic

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The thrum and the thrust// have beaten conviviality out of me.

Art Is Resilient

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Our revolutionaries Have evolved into gamekeepers

Candle Smoke Wishes

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“The minute I stopped wondering about the meaning of life is when I finally started enjoying life.”

Kwaazy Wabbit

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destroy the day rip up the track jump in the water eat nothing but bugs

Fix

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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

The Grid

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From this fundamental simplicity,/ houses, cities, regions./ A nebula stretches across the grid.

War ; a fragment

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Lela, my grandmother.

Duty

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Two girls, twelve years old, run down San Pedro Avenue past the market, the middle school, seven driveways, their small chests heaving. The smooth soles of their Mary Janes keep slipping on the gravel driveways. Two men in a rust-orange van bear…

moonstruck

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i waited for the moon last night for hoursfell asleep with the record player on and dreamedof rain running downgutters of sea glass housesthe sun nudged me awakeand she served me toasthe's not serious,she saidhe's half baked,full of…

New/Old

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With spring rain And greening buds

The Polish Worker

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

The Yolk

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It's a house of eggs.

The Dolly Boys

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I have a fascination with Dickens and London and this was inspired by my next novel.

The Forgotten Children...

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His cheeks were extremely pink but the pink was not the shade usually associated with good health, it was the pink of Death.

REM-Embering my LED

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Someone desperately dials a number. Iris, draped tight.

The Madness of Mass Dance

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Outbreaks of mass communal dancing—sometimes referred to as “choreomania”—occurred in Europe with some frequency in Europe between the 14th and the 18th centuries.

The New Lycanthropy

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Who remains after the aching night has departed into dawn and left us to week-old sleep

Edward Ogle the Seventh

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Airwave candy lyrical brandy brass band singer.

Shenanigans 4: mutual and selective congratulation

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" ... that’s a seriously good result for an opening night."

Five Million Yen: Chapter 11

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Ben was stuck between sweet essences and rancid Talmudic funk. It was going to be a long trip.

Hollywood

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I heard that Hollywood is remaking “Thelma and Louise” with Christina Ricci and that dark haired girl who worked on a show that plays on the television. I heard it either from the internet or from a dream. I thought about looking it up, but I don't…

The House of Cézanne

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Is there anything more emphatic than an ovary?

Seance

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communication/ with the dead

Civilization Marches On

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The redwood trees were taller than dreams