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We write in darkness. We love
in alleys. We breathe into beige
paper bags. Anything to mollify
the confusion. Anything to simplify
the math.
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felt as if someone had pulled me in by the belt, or grabbed me by a knot in the hair, and kissed me with fire-engine lips. I was happy. I was in love.
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But I surely did recognize Rayburn Moon; Rayburn and I dated for about five minutes back then
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"Time really flies.”
“I thought that was only when you were having fun,” he said.
“Don’t be an asshole.”
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A decade, at minimum, was how long their notes had transpired.Still, they all knew how it would end.
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Forgive the doctor/
his hypocrisy -
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122155
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Sometimes the beauty you make wants you to say, aaahhh, and let it go. There are a lot of things floating around, so it's no wonder that some things get sadly lost, like minds,like people, like feelings. It doesn't make anything spin any less. That's what…
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Now, as we sat on lawn chairs /
on the balcony to watch the meteor shower
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The green on your shoulder Is worth all their papery property taxes And then some. They cash in every friendship As if it were nothing more than a Ripened apple for pie. Get rid of The thing before it begins to Rot into some…
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122121
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For eight years I have been living with a man named Darren Fletcher, who I will refer to as “Bud” to preserve his anonymity.
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My supper consisted of no cheese
My marriage consisted of no violin
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Last night I decided to go through my bag of wind and sort things out. I'm a hoarder, and wind is no exception. I collect winds. I found two siroccos, five simooms, three foehns, eight Chinooks, ninety gales, thirty zephyrs, two nor'westers, a monsoon, a…
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You read my poems, Not because you like them, But just to find yourself, Mentioned in them.
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I’d like to thank no one.
But especially my first love in life
For putting me through hell
With all her lies and eternal sweetness
Toward all her many leading men
While maintaining she was virgin
Until she met me.
What was the point?
Ah, y
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I'm pulled in by the music
like a rogue wave
and he has no idea I'm drowning...
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No one wanted to bear witness
to this grand emasculation
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122142
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Urban skunks want to visit your neighborhood and be bold in your neighborhood.
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I saw the shiny dime . . . .
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Our trouble decided when the CUNY PhD student, a poet, cried out, “Racination!” during discussion of my poem.
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122100
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The night before, his dad had stumbled in drunk and beat his mother. John had covered his ears with his pillow to block out their screams.
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Is it my imagination, or is her chair afraid of her?
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A vanishing of something we never got to see. All we've been left with are impressions, imaginings
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Samson was also somewhat in hopes that his son Jason would become engaged in this minor capitalist enterprise and 'turned around' in his life.
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Love is easy. Lazy. Fickle.
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Ben gagged after shot-gunning the scotch. He hiccupped and it came back up through his nose. He grabbed a napkin and caught most of a shot and a half of Whyte & MacKay as it poured out his nose.
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arrogant, sullen,/
supple and ambiguous,//
English seems the ideal tongue
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She sees her mother the Sunday after Zoe discovered her seven-week-old creation, like a chewed gingerbread man with red icing, in the toilet bowl beneath her.
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Apocalyptica 1. the portent holds you while you try for solace in the bath anticipating the opened mouth the one that cannot close after and there is a knotting inside of joints and threads poised so delicately in the waiting …
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