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She sits at home, on the floor of the kitchen, bathing her stuffed animals in molasses to match the ones on the news.
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I arrived at Yaddo, the prestigious artists’ retreat, in the summer of 1941. With America’s “day that will live in infamy” several months away, my own day of infamy began the second morning of my residency.
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There are gestures, unmarred by the words put to them after all has failed. When Y. stopped you from talking to apply lip balm to your dry lips. Or she sidled up to you to read what you had written for her. When you lay on the grass together she put her head on…
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Public voice when he's tense.
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I'm Alice invading the garden,
looking for souls among cards
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Love is always going to be all even when all else is
floating to the burning ground.
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... while I lie, cool as a nectar cream snowball,
in my Maggie The Cat slip, painting my toenails
a color called Bad Influence
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Arriving at the pier I see a sailboat in dead wind.
"That is pathos," Magritte says,
pointing to a barnacle.
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When you return home, one year to the day that you left us, you will wonder if you can do it all over again.
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I stare, out a dirty window, / into the sanitary blackness.
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“This is the most dangerous road in the world and you want to drive down it. You crazy,” he said.
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Sorry Glenn Gould, I said, but our princess is in another castle. After that, Glenn and I went to an all night diner and ate scrambled eggs.
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The man she loved did not love her. At first she prayed to Athena for strength and steadiness. She began to knock on wood, spit on her…
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The debits and credits of life have been recalculated. You are not due tax; you are owed a trapeze. It turns out you have a natural gift for hanging upside down, knees to the clouds.
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We made our escape on grimy streets under skies filled with crows, flapping like litter in the wind.
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Larry's next book, A Fly in My Ointment, is due out this summer
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He sits on a folded-over cardboard box, slightly off-balance and without any visible sign of support other than the granite wall of the bank behind him and the few coins in the paper cup he shakes at each passerby.
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They giggled at me when they thought I was asleep, giggled at the size of my balls, which had never been a problem before her. Said it was because of my tiny balls that we only had two children.
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On the Rocks What matters these, to all, below the crest… If privilege of mind-blankness is the bay's? Remembrance breeds no fathoms of its rest- As plumb the circuit lulled, at each rephrase Of capture,…
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"The problem is, sometimes my pigeon wants to fly somewhere new- to the beach or south for winter. Other times, my pigeon wants to steal someone else’s lunch or picnic with a stranger’s leftovers. Often, my pigeon wants a good show and some freedom, to be
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I'm afraid to find out what my spirit animal is
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It's a lie, it doesnt mean anything this, only that my lips are ripe and soft.
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A cruel panther gets its prey.
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Donnie remembers just in time. So we run practically every stop sign and red light in town, and get there just before they close.
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This is my house. You park in the back.
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This is a picture of flowers and hands.
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I was having festive sex flashbacks and wasn't thinking sharply.
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This was a dream in which I didn’t know fear.
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But I do not dig graves, only cradles...
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The couple drove away at the end of the late show. They crashed sooner or later, often with fatalities to the woman cuddled up against her illicit lover.
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