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Assiduity Twenty Six

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Uzma and Luv are . . .

Precipitants

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we’ll never win/ the ongoing battle with dirt.

No Cheese

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My supper consisted of no cheese My marriage consisted of no violin

eggs

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i ask you what i taste like and you say "not much."

Cat Haikus

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You have more names Than a Spanish grandee. Your lives I’m too envious to count.

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.

Breaking Bread at Al Qalzam

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My first time alone with the women in Saudi Arabia...

Johnny Bruzzone: Pool Hustler

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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

Experimental Poetry

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Sometimes the dirt just stays dirt

Passion

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From words to meaning― how complicated it is.

His house

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His house incubates memories. As he sleeps, they hatch.His house is neither here nor there. It occupies a space between watchfulness and insomnia. Grey birds nest on its roof.His house is a refuge from everything except himself. The floor, walls, roof are fat with him.…

Arcana Magi Memorial Vol.7 - c.3

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Oryn led Ragnorak to a window. It was darkened in the corners with only a red light over the Nocturne.

The Judge's Wife Part 2

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"Do you kiss all of your models?"

Alone Before Surgery

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I spat in the toilet.

The Avenues Of Occupation And Other Short Stories

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A vanishing of something we never got to see. All we've been left with are impressions, imaginings

Ain't the End of Me

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But even if the truth Never sets me free I'll know this ain't the end of me

October is the month when your dog dies

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Leda, After the Swan

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I do not jerk up to sirens birds doorbell shouts hello hello through the letterbox hello

PRELUDES AND INTERLUDES

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Her friend had been drunk, and sometimes after two or three quarts of beer, he'd tell people that he was Jewish.

Earth Day Celebration

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At the annual Earth Day celebration, Frieda looked up in the sky and saw a lone goose. It had caught her attention with its call, echoing off the buildings and trees.

Kwaazy Wabbit

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

Blue Dresses

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It makes me feel like a dirty old man: adorning Celia, Making an offering of my blue dresses, adorning Celia.

Beaten

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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…

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…

Raleigh

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My dad / always had a fondness for Raleigh’s kind of loss

Precipice of Questions

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He stood with the bride of quietness / on the precipice of questions

Too Far

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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

The Nude Pianist: A Novel: Chapter 6

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Frank met Angelique Brody on the street in front of his building.

[TD100 - 1] The Woods

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The second time I watched him, I helped him carry her to the woods. [100 words].

With Respect to a Fellow Poet

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We do not all love each other for the sake of our shared art, apparently.