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meditation and thoughts run in circles
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Who remains after the aching night has departed into dawn
and left us to week-old sleep
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the odd stone stands/taller than trees/it protrudes from the young forest/an old mecca but smooth
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I watched as you tried to fit yourself quite awkwardly into the small chair. Your eyes fluttered curiously around my house, and I smiled to myself. Your vision landed on my smile, and your face wore an expression of puzzlement."What are you smiling at?" you asked, your…
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Then he said something that really made sense, said he kept a blank check in his back pocket...
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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…
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If you find a lone, sad honeybee, buy a Habitrail cage and make it your new pet.
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lucy had simply taken a kitchen knife and removed the outer layer, the layer of things people notice
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136300
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You sleep in equative lip biting slumber
hugging a pillow you think is someone else.
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136345
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Is there anything more emphatic than an ovary?
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Creatures of the dark don’t follow daylight savings
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we’ll never win/
the ongoing battle with dirt.
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We're in a sedate forest next to a boisterous beach. The sky is sea green above the trees and forest green above Sinepuxent Bay. Chaste squirrels are keeping a lookout for bad-boy gulls. Kids on circus bikes ride out of the woods into their bathing suits. The…
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before five/glancing down Academy Street/sloping west to where the tracks crossed/twisted tangled metal on wheels.
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You can have two threes, or three twos. I hear the beat both ways. It goes back and forth in my head, like magic, transforming from one to the other and back again. And I am learning the basics of music theory, and painting geometric shapes with primary colors. I am…
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We are a city of overworked workers.
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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
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Seems hot for a Thursday, doesn’t it?
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Ah we just sat on the flat roof of the school and looked out at what was beyond because sometimes there is nothin' to do but sit on a flat roof of a school and look out at what is beyond. Going up there I had told him to be careful with the bag because if he didn't take…
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I was a coward and didn’t want to get killed like Heimley. Heimley was a nut at high school. I saw him myself one night put his hand right through the windshield of this car he was working on, along with a monkey wrench. Sure, he was drunk, but th
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I’m up to my kneecaps
in mockery and swill, and …
Excuse Me,
I’m Writing a Poem here?
Thank you. Sheesh!
As I was saying,
I’m up to my kneecaps in mockery and swill.
And I meet someone who
names all his fish after
people he doesn’t l
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She says, “He's like, the eighth wonder of the world.” She says this without irony, and this makes you feel embarrassed for her. The laughter in this small, smoky space is getting louder. You chew your chapped lips and put your…
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The thrum and the thrust//
have beaten conviviality out of me.
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136210
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I do not jerk up to sirens birds doorbell shouts hello hello through the letterbox hello
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for that is righteousness / that to everyone be allowed his own choice
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Later, you've hit that four shot espresso limit; you've snarfed down that too rich mushroom korma… gone before you tasted it.
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"May I help you?"
She was beautiful.
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Someone desperately dials a number.
Iris, draped tight.
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