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And You--And You--And You

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“Good to see you, old man,” Greg said. He was like that, an investment banker, a latter-day Tom Buchanan without the polo ponies, self-consciously fusty.

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…

Starlight

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I've been chasing something that cannot be caught.

The Man Who Suckled Elvis

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No one wanted to bear witness to this grand emasculation

Stump the Nuns!

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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."

Turnings

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“Help me,” the man said in his mind. He lay beside the folding camp stool alone in the middle of the woods, in the clearing where he and the dog always rested.

Variations on a Theme by Pina Bausch

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Threads of sadness in the hands, in the touch

Ennui

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I've done the math, it didn't count. All the days and years of endless boredom. Of waiting for the next best thing, trapped inside your mind like a lifetime prison sentence. Maybe one day we'll be free, maybe one day we won't feel so oppressed. But when does that day…

Precipice of Questions

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

Runts

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Dead drunks sing Christmas/ songs-

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.

Sunday Morning Series- 5: On Divine Intervention

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What does God find abhorrent?

Standards

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All I ask is that the guy has teeth and an income. More important are the teeth because he can always get a job, but he can’t un-rot the teeth he’s lost to meth.

we used to drop her off along the way

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We do it all the time...

American Passage

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The moon, a cataract cloaked in its charcoal fog, slowly seeps among the trees; night's unguent.Its glance is constant and white,its arc known. I watch its brow of bone with constant wonder.The long, slow funeral of America is taking its time; its…

Driving Through Mississippi Wearing a Chin Beard in 1964

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Ah, the nerve of hot-blooded youth! But the drinking age was only 18 in New Orleans, and we couldn’t resist the call of all that legalized drinking (even though I had fake I.D’s my roommate at Urbana had given me.) You and I had already consecrated

Juicy | In the Umbra

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He licks his lips and mouths the air, salivating, unashamed of his propensity for the round, pink grapefruit, the almost egg-shaped oranges, the firm, juicy tangerines.

The Judge's Wife Part 2

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"Do you kiss all of your models?"

No Ideas but in Things?

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Forgive the doctor/ his hypocrisy -

Out of Vegas

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Whatever it is, the night vibe feeds off that disadvantage, nibbles at the desperation of those who come here.

twitter quitter

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you can reach me at hashtag this!

Precisely

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Is it my imagination, or is her chair afraid of her?

Redneck Haiku

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some local color Haiku

Apollo (2/2 - sections 3-5)

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III. Through wheelwind crypts of mystery, through…

Starting Over 1974

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Stone-gathering became my job by default. Digging the foundation, trundling the loaded wheelbarrow away from the site, yours.

Ambivalence

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She said it feels wrong. Too wet, she said. I snickered, she smacked.

Deity

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On this day, a blinding sky holds ribbed reams of clouds, staccato against staggering blue.

Henry's Night

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Henry recognized the shoes. “There’s a little vampire came in with those on, but I last saw her over by the juice bar.” He couldn’t be bothered with Arthur’s “sections.” The club wasn’t that big that it had to be defined by sections.

No Lions or Tigers, Thank Goodness

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I scrambled back a bit and found my feet after untangling them from my trekking poles. Really should have dropped those when this all started. The bear lunged at me with his teeth and I just barely dodged to the left to avoid getting something bitten of

My Own Gun

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“What's a slut?”