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It sits there, watching, waiting, multiple cycles over.
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Here comes the bus. It’s going to Tuscany and is full of pronouns: he, she, me, you, it, them, us, we, and you again.
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All of the reviews are the same, one star reviews with five star ravings. What the fuck do these pigs want from me, if not my art? Pearls before swine would be an…
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My first winter in Massachusetts feels medieval: cold, dark, and endless.
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As being ebbs it deepens. The mind grows truant. We inhabit a permanent Saturday.
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I could have a minor stroke.
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When daybreak comes, it falls a pall pást mé, For it descends too soon for woken sight to see A shade of any gladness in its dew's first blisters: All my dreams of daylight are in darkling whispers Of…
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The falcon cannot hear the falconer. The rain comes down in sheets.
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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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I thought
we ended things a long time ago
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When the compost thaws the past oozes out into the present....
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-Looks like you could use some light, Austerlitz, said one of the men in a heavy Russian accent, or perhaps you prefer the dark?
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don’t ask me to set my goals./
I have none except safe air to breathe,/
a reliable roof,/
something aromatic in the oven.
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It wasn't the sun sparkling
Or the dog of the neighbor
Barking.
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We are impressed and cheer them on/
in their struggle against the wild/
and unkempt ravages of nature
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I'm looking for the perfect/passage, a safe, sound/jettison to now.
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In dreams begin responsibilities--Yeats I'm writing this story to tell you about a mistake, despite the fact that you might find it boring or might consider my writing style onerous or overeager. I begin with…
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2008Not a bubble burstbut a trust ruptured.The guilty don't survivebut, rather, thrive. 2011The monied are superior.They game the system well.As we work harder, longer,their paper fortunes swell.2017Marie and Louie were monied once.The Romanovs as well.Fast as blades and…
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I find that I am keeping silent more often. I don't like repeating myself.
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Poets die every day but are seldom in position to put the experience to literary merit.
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The sun was a red beet and it waited low in the sky but I didn't know for what reason. You could look right at it and forget for an instant about tenement buildings and hydro lines, or the dirty city in general. I tied my shoes and got some water…
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Like the Lady Miss Kier, I believe in the power of love. I believe.
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Sometimes the universe is a coin flipping so fast it’s hard to see which side is polished and shiny.
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Rob was having a hard time of it. His whole life was like that-- in and out of jail for assault, robbery and selling drugs. He tried to go straight. A career counselor, had set him up, with a job in a warehouse. But he just couldn't…
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In the tang of winter warm
and summer cool,
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Couldn’t
we
just
do
a
quick
ie
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I am brave, I am sexy, I am strong
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A ten-ton bus with ill-manners going slow
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There’s not enough time because we come back to the things we never learn and forget them.
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You think about bears and it gives you a headache? Don’t give them that power.
You see bears and it gives you a headache? Don’t run. Don’t walk but don’t run.
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