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What I'm going to do is grab this eight-year-old fellow down the block, and declare him a candidate for this Presidential campaign. I'll be his campaign manager, and our whole message will be based on the First Streetlight platform. It's old school but very…
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“It's a combination of ‘Survivor' and ‘College Bowl' says Sister Mary Agnesita, the show's host. “We take four very strict nuns and match them up with boys who were cut-ups in their grade school classes."
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Thin slices of ruby tomato, red onion, and green peppers joined the bacchanal, wilting in the bliss of chile and cilantro raining down on them.
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i could smell it,
my scalp split on
that same damn nail,
i hammered down 20 times,
it kept coming loose
that warped floorboard
i never should have tacked in
when i built this house.
it always squeaked
at the base of the stairs
when i snuck
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I love the notion of uncertainty-/
which seems inherent/
at the level of particles-
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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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I was sitting there drinking with Paul at the bar, and it was a Friday night and I was I was feelin good. I didn't have to go to work in the morning, and I had a few drinks and food in me, and I able to that on da cheap, which felt good. And Paul…
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A parody of John Ashbery I have been preconditioned likewise by the ligatures of the roof. It has bypassed even the lightning. When I started this essay I (poetics equalling dissemination, like a toilet plug) admired, and I in the book produced…
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From this fundamental simplicity,/
houses, cities, regions./
A nebula stretches across the grid.
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I saw the shiny dime . . . .
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" ... that’s a seriously good result for an opening night."
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removing oneself sometimes occurs only on the page
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My dad / always had a fondness for Raleigh’s kind of loss
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Stone-gathering became my job
by default. Digging the foundation, trundling the loaded wheelbarrow away from the site, yours.
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An eternity in a crashing moment.
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130311
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Now that you can go to a body shop and get nearly any mod you can imagine printed and attached in about an hour, every cracker-ass redneck is sporting a twelve-point rack...
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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
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“You look so … distinguished.
My!” she said.
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In my dreams, I feel my dreams fade away.
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I imagined cool, wet clay oozing between my fingers when I'd squeeze a tight fistful.
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130333
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I’m well aware of the shadow stalking just to my left, her mannish voice flirting with my sensibilities.
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130352
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Someone desperately dials a number.
Iris, draped tight.
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130376
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bullets in flight make sharp, snapping noises.
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far beyond the far beyond
sparkles the stars like sparkles
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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…
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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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toe and hand-/
holds against/
the shear cliff
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My first time alone with the women in Saudi Arabia...
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He stood with the bride of quietness / on the precipice of questions
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