1121 14 7
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A brief colorful season/
and then the fall as winds/
break the hold the leaves have
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112054
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The renegade states- Virginia, Georgia,/
Texas, and the rest- should have lost their names
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112010
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I had to go to
the lost and fondue.
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112020
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I think I know that fly
That fly followed us from our apartment
on W. 11th St
When I opened the door he flew right in
and when we left, he flew right out again
Followed us on the subway to Times Square
Took the Shuttle apparently
Followed
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112033
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“C'mon Billy, don't be s-s-s-s-scared.' said the voice coming from under the bed. Billy looked over the side and saw a pale white, bony right hand with it's forefinger beckoning him protruding out from below. The nails were yellowed and cracked. And long. Very, very…
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112010
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I think of particles exploding, coming back together like some physics experiment I don’t know the name for. “Large Hadron Collider,” you say. But that’s not what I mean.
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11201512
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Will it//
scare us shitless when we can finally/
draw ourselves a likeness of it?
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112010
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Two lovers — their genders / faces / social identities / etc. up to the viewer’s imagination (though I caution you, dear reader, not to imagine yourself in this role due to the psychic intensity of the following passages) — writhe against each other
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112033
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His ear is swathed by a large white bandage
that runs down under the chin. Dressed in a heavy dark
green coat, buttoned at the neck.
Streaks of orange relieve the darkness of the green.
Purple and black cap on his head.
Calmly smoking a pipe.
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112000
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Mike Summer's moustache was perfect. Hard bristle and so symmetrical it looked cut to the angles of a military imperative. He was pretty proud of it, thought the team of beaters, who watched him as he sat on the boot ledge of his sage green Mercedes 123 T, combing…
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111900
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“Eat up, little brother” Jack called out from his end of the table. “The food will make your blood dance. It will be eager to mix with Helen’s.”
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111900
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111955
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Seems I was in the wrong place, wrong time.
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111942
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the silence of the hardwood floors
blisters into fragments
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1119167
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“Time is inalterable. We can only offer an altered perception of time. And what better way to do that than by offering altered timepieces?
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111901
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I remembered every noun and matching verb,
Simple sentences only, two words divided by a line,
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111941
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She came to him with her arms open and a smile on her face; the kind of smile that assured him everything would be fine. He longed for that smile for months now; seeing her wearing that smile that he…
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111960
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After too much
I had forgotten how to fly.
There was a small owl with me
on the old dirt road by the wind.
It was a very dark gray,
like an ash.
Its beak moved, it opened and shut,
opened and closed,
but I had also forgotten the language
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111920
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I saw an ocean drained and filled / at the flats of Saemangeum.
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111921
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The sky was dressed in a wedding gown. The hooves of my horse clicked like consonants on the stone of the butte.
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111922
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Momma wakes us up early while Daddy's still asleep, pulls out white poster boards, markers from the closet, and together, we draw babies...
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111943
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This grey is going to kill me
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111832
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her knife cleaves a single red hair
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111896
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I'm mucked now for sure. No one's going to discover my difficult poems in a locked away desk drawer somewhere after the dying fact. I remember how it feels to be knocked out by someone standing next to me in a simple white dress. This…
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111800
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She approached him submissively, face down, eyes hidden by hair that moved with every shift of the current.
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111843
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The items were not selected. The people were not forced to choose, with tears and a suffocating feeling.
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111866
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I want that one, unnoticed taste.
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1118101
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I've been floating dearadriftI could not see you clearlythrough the tattered, hazy scrim the boundary between usmight as well have been a canyonyou reached for me anda vice tightenedaround my headI wanted to merge with youmy heart wished for abrilliant explosion of limb…
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111810
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I really need to go to the bathroom.
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111800
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The toilet paper had been the least of the issue. It was just something else for her to yell about. See, what she was really upset about was the bank account. The bank account had been his, then theirs, and now it was his again.
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