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Now the house is empty of romance except a potted flowering plant from my mother for Valentine's Day. No man has set foot in my museum since I moved here. One man has set foot. The owner's brother to see about the gasket under the toilet. The Comcast installers, twice. The…
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136032
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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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136054
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We are a city of overworked workers.
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136063
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Can we meet in the desert,
I will stand with a cactus flower clenched
between my teeth and balance en pointe.
I will tame snakes and find your serpent
tongue with my eyes closed.
I will usher in the clouds, when it grows hot,
and, should you becom
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136000
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Ben was stuck between sweet essences and rancid Talmudic funk. It was going to be a long trip.
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136010
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Seems hot for a Thursday, doesn’t it?
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136085
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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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136022
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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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1360108
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toe and hand-/
holds against/
the shear cliff
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136051
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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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136042
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Standing there as you walked away from me that late March afternoon, in the park off Meridian Street, the spring tableau seemed
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1360127
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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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136035
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I just picked up and
went to Rome
when I was young and beautiful
When I was young and beautiful
I played with life
like it didn’t matter or exist
When I was young and beautiful
I never failed
Beach nudity
Etc
Didn’t move me
But d
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135910
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I do not jerk up to sirens birds doorbell shouts hello hello through the letterbox hello
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we’ll never win/
the ongoing battle with dirt.
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135944
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an almost perfectly symmetrical/
Cheshire grin of a moon tonight/
above the iced roof of the house
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135941
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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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135900
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By the time I was born, my parents were already sickened, blackened, blighted people.
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135930
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These are not the caffeinated men of barbaric lore.
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135900
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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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135952
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I’m up to my ass in social media.
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135977
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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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135920
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"Already he is running and flying to the center of the world" - Mircea Eliade, about what a shaman is up to, under his mask.
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135841
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In praise of the colorful flock with crowns
of teased cotton candy rising high above
Modular walls, stalled operating systems
staling coffee and pale corner offices
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135800
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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.
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135841
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the cocksucking of strategic death planning
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135852
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Someone desperately dials a number.
Iris, draped tight.
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135811
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As clever as clean bed sheets
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135831
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. . . why did it take so long?
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