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The Tale of a Fat Ugly Crow on a May Afternoon

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a fat crow rapturously caws over its good fortune... not a morsel left on the street, not even a bloodstain

We the Wild Men

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There's a whole pack of us, men minted from hot brass and thumbtacks. Too tough for sensibility's sake.

Beginning Amy Clampitt

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The walks along the beach/ render brave, meticulous, taxonomies

Still Photographs

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one will become a tobacco king; another will steal copper plumbing on moonlessnights.

The Watcher

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the dark brown cloaked warden stands on his lofty perch

Wind Calling

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Listening to old friends speak the same way, the same things tells me they have been dead a long time. They are in their form of living, their self, there is no new season of growth. I witness each of them continue on the same path because it is familiar

Epigenetics

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Wanted: Woman with wit, repartee skills, education and looks. Conversation, verbal dualing and ??? Respond to Seeker.

Mr. Bourgeois Drowns His Sorrows

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Late last night down at Jim's Saloon Everyone expected that the last balloon Would go Boom! The one they all saw coming And Lady Liberty would send the bad guys running

77 Words About Nothing [5-24-2012]

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Alright is alright but alright is a state of mind, right?

The Man Inside

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...her facial twitches, gasps and whines, her moments of trapped silence.

They Don't Get to Say Everything

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The world hasn't ended. Your part in it is still ongoing. The going on world hasn't winked out. Every possibility is still out there. In there, out there, it doesn't matter where you are. The here and now claims you for its only tribe. They only want someone to tell them…

The Big LARP

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The ambient sound wheezes on.

Here is a game...

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I give you three words dripping wet with whatever and you take them, harbor them...

Shiver, 43

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, that smiley lush would shake rattle and quiver the day long no matter the temperature.

All About You

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Sometimes you want to strike out at me. What is stopping you? There is no stopping you. You know I will not retaliate. Gone is all that I will be to you then.

Agora

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Sometimes I think our gathering is a ritual centered on collective visualization. Other times I feel like I have been physically transported. I am not sure there is a difference.

From The Files Of Mitt Romney, Bounty Hunter: Genesis

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Mitt looked at his one-time running mate and took a deep breath. He was beginning to think that throwing all of his money and belongings into the ocean and eloping to Key West with Paul Ryan was a bad idea. Paul had turned out to be more needy than a danc

Bird's Eye View

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seven birds on the wire turn in unison to the right

Edward Ogle the Fifth

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Roaming beetles knitting needles chopstick counter attack.

Violent Limb Part 1

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Before the new arm, I used to sit outside the players' facility and wonder, in between the throbs of pain pulsing sickly through my temples, how much longer I could be a hockey player.

2 Haiku

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We’re heading to a Poetry reading when my wife Says “You owe me one” Coming back from the Poetry reading, my wife says “You owe me, big time”

Section

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In one section of the map C climbs a staircase.

Man

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There’s not enough time because we come back to the things we never learn and forget them.

Just a Kiss

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We are diminished by our desire for innocence, and we debase those who possess it.

The Sadness of Being On Line and (Bonus Extra!) The Driver

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He had to get over the short bridge

FULL NEST

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Every time I look at you there are two dumb mouths that slip between stretch marks.

Outing

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My friend and I were arranging the things in my closet because we literally had nothing to do but he found himself in my house again, which he described to me like a disease...

Fortune Favours

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We're all just meat and atoms who can no more sense into the great beyond than a horse can fly a plane.

Things That Are Sad

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Things that are sad.

"Not like a duck"

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with its head cut off