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SNIPS & SNAILS & PUPPY-DOG TAILS IS THE *LEAST* OF IT! by Ranting Bitch in a Cold, Cold World

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The Truth About Storytelling

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irretrievably we tell ourselves stories irretrievably as beaded water slides off our skin

Confession

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It is not simple to love in two places, and I have always been a restless woman waiting for signs. Then you appeared walking on my very grave while the stars aligned themselves in patterns of celestial light. I have watched the moon eclipse with you drawing breath…

postscript

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the sand is hot to walk upon so you must run if caught there w/out footwear. it is like a painter has colored the sea and made parts of it dark blue yet other areas green. little birds jump around the fine grain world and that is when you wonder where they came…

Weld (St. Petersburg Blues)

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There's one graveyard for the part-timers and another for the full-timers. Ours is a little nicer, but we're still all going to hell. Do you remember St. Petersburg? No, you're memory's not that good.

Self-Medication to Lovecraftian Horror

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There is something preposterous / about existing in a universe so vast: / Such a big playground for such tiny children, /

Noir in cadence

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...hup hup hup...

Five Million Yen: Chapter 60

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Thérèse Defarge felt the first drop around ten.

Wilderness

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We call this game the end of the world...

Oh Captain, Good Captain: Part I

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I once knew a sailor...

Seriously?

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Did you really think you were going to cure cancer with that poem?

Leaky Guts

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One day, Dasha confessed to Igor that she had an incurable illness: Purple emptiness.

To the Folksinger Just Arrived

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Whisper salutations to your irises

Away From the River

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Tiny poem

My Daughter Belongs In a Mental Home

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Five Million Yen: Chapter 71

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It was that awkward time when one didn’t know if the night’s lover wanted to see you again.

Inconvenient Weather

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With the sudden thrust// of April green, we can forget/ our drought continues.

Shovel

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each vertebra is a golden cavalier, brave in upright vigilance; stoic heroes.

With Every Word

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The bedroom was still as our conversation dissolved into a heavy silence broken only by the ticking of the clock on her night table and the occasional sob that hadn't yet been swallowed in her pillow. I stubbed out my cigarette and leaned forward in…

The Lonely White Elephant in Rome

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the gambling priest stands in the morning fog/red moon hangs in the sky/the army of seven houses marches over the hill

Women of God

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I keep the book when the lessons are done, go through the pages Momma skipped over...

Rite-Aid

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It was the most prestigious cashier position in the entire state!

I Want to Leave You With My Passwords

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I mean let's be real.

Five Million Yen: Chapter 66

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Jack Krackenthorpe, Director-General of MI-5, sat alone drinking tea in Lee Ho Fook, a third-rate Chinese restaurant in Soho a mile from his Curzon Street office.

Hype and Melancholy

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Sonia banks on hidden things in the minds of other people, whereas I bank on what I know.

five shards of the ancient and the antique

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“Outis of Utopia” my found name! / I'll inscribe it soon as the tide goes out.

Their Day

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The lace fell through the fingers, wrinkled and nimble they had become too used to avoiding the finite objects in life which needed attention. The white cotton sat loosely on her shoulders, the collar exposed the skin which had become dry and her shoulder

Like There Was No Tomorrow

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And there on the street Were a bunch of frantic pigeons Picking over some discarded Chicken bones I mean they were really Going to town on them You know, frantic Like there was no tomorrow And then I saw it A real sign of progress

Don't Forgive Me

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of anything if that's the way you feel your love must go down, off its last nut before the big victimizing crash of the end of days and flowers. But watch out for thosethorn bushes that grow from forgotten holes in the ground.…

when you're not here, your feeling is

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never have i wanted/ to stay in one place long,/ flight inspired to escape/ existential ennui--