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He peels the garlic while I stir the lentils; he chops the cilantro while I peel kale leaf from stem. Also, the rings. Also, no one is going anywhere.
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136082
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The sometimes shiver that arrives from awkward silences and the more often cold that comes from midwestern winters.
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136033
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I study the architecture of hunger. I listen to intuitions. I have a map of heaven and a map of hell and they are the same map.
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135911
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On this day, a blinding sky
holds ribbed reams of clouds,
staccato against staggering blue.
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135910
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So what happensTo the VFWIn a global economyAnd the monumentsErected in reverenceAfter the boysWho became menCame back homeTo be fathersThen grandfathersGreat-grandfathersAnd start to fall awayAs the days creep byThat petty paceOf politics as usualFamily DiasporasAnd maybe…
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135922
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Is this a tenure track position?
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135965
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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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135900
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Anyway, without Mr. Little, my life would have been much more difficult after my father was arrested. It was difficult enough as it was. Mr. Little was my personal hero at a time in my life when I had very few people that I could look up to. The funny
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135921
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The first intimation that something was afoul was when his computer crashed.
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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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135933
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J., W., and W.’s girlfriend were exploring the nature and mores of homosexual conduct by discussing whether W. would be willing to suck J.’s cock.
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135921
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I must say your script is rather impressive. “You will mesmerize a girl in velvet stained garment…” “The channels of cologne fade from a body, eventually.” The girl carousels home with a raspier…
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135900
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever. Also a thing with bodacious knockers.
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1359106
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We do not all love each other for the sake of our shared art, apparently.
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135922
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO3RAM7-ciU
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135841
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The cicadas hissed and chirruped until the air was thick with a noise like mechanical bedsprings bouncing for the 4th of July.
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135800
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To politicians who think things will stop,
When they finally let slip and drop -
this government of ours we call
The ultimate power of them all.
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1358108
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135833
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I will not leave the boat.
The sea has left you.
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135812
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I was setting up a mattress and a lamp in the balcony of my house because a boy, G., told me he was coming to fuck me.
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135840
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I became infamous, in certain circles, for what I achieved, maybe more so for what I did not. I invented a dating service for seniors called “Carbon Dating.” I wrote a book called “What Real Estate Did for Me,” which was very brief and to the point. It
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135801
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I felt my words reach out and try to grab him by the heart. They missed.
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135893
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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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135864
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He followed me through the crowds at Grand Central Station.
Wherever I went, there he was,
half my height, dressed in the characteristic gold and maroon garb,
with a paper cup of coffee in his hand.
He must have sensed something about me.
Th
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135700
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Something like: Answers to questions you might not yet have?
[Answers we will try hard not to provide]
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135776
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They wink at me as if to share/
a cosmic joke whose punch line’s still/
a couple dozen light years out
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135720
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Uncles. Cousins. Enos. No matter how loosely a net is woven, eventually the strands come together again.
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135711
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In this 7-Eleven at 2AM I can write the saddest lines. /
Among these malcontents and degenerates I am Ovid
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135710
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Beyond the parrots and the palms, she can see an airplane resting in the canyon below, belly up, wings like outstretched arms, the occupants inside presumably rotting in their seats.
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