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Excerpt: Reykjavik: A Novel

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2. Reykjavík - 1986 …

Sequence Instead of Services on Sunday

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We reach for things and objects// made of ever smaller things and objects

Пушкин и Baudelaire, via странников

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—but night does not reduce me to sleep / the dragging minutes keep awake / the dark that only opens its deep . . .

Firecracker to the Dome

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pulling my bones apart, fingers are supernatural beings

no-name time of day

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"covered in a sheen of sweat, flowers of salt bloom on my T-shirt"

I Can't Breathe

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"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."--Desmond Tutuand all the animals are migrating away from us. That can't be good. I can't breathe and the moon is on fire. I can't breathe and the ground is starting to rise…

Blackout

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forsake glass; structure; light; the impermanence of here, or there, or you, or i.

Sic Transit

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He was that famous actor—now famously forgotten—most renowned for his exits. He could burst through an in or out door with the best of them. Better than the best of them; he was the best of them. With the subtlety of his often noisy art he could…

Dubious Appetite

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Looking back now, examining from a distance the sequence of events I failed to connect as anything beyond queer happenstance...

gravelortian part 7

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suck chew sip

How We Handle Our Midnights

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He fingered her lighter off the table during a party hoping she would come over and talk. She was just on the other side of the coffee table but the stereo was so loud, belly or dee lite or some other early 90's dance…

Winter-Love in a Dark Corner

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. . . making a little winter-love, in a dark corner.

Swaying on This Articulation Until We Slow

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In Nebraska, I looked up from the flatness, to her face, then down to the page and saw this: Real people have joy.

Enigmas

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Fish don't walk.

Wonder Boy Wonder

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He knew it was messed up and wrong, but sometimes she was the last thing he’d see before the dam burst. It made him feel both the best and the worst.

boardwalk

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coast to coast

of love and death

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- I wish I were taller. - You also wish I never die.- What´s your point?- Santa Claus must really hate you.------ What´s the most ridiculous thing someone´s ever asked you?- Please never die. - But you promised!------ I just want to go to sleep, I´m…

Custard and Blancmange

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Who here of us has not yet caught Advanced to leaden fife, The answer to our waiting What, That answered, “Such is life?” I saw a jelly man go past, Who wobbled in his strife And cried, “No stiffness that won't last …

Barbed Wire

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The end of love is a rusty barbed-wire fence.

The Tote Bag Song

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You can ask so many questions Of what’s it all about You can empty out the closets And roll the mothballs out But no one has the answers It’s all a mystery There’s a bigger picture But it’s really hard to see

The words you are known by: To Mitt Romney on the eve of his national convention, a cento

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I'll tell you what, Rick, ten-thousand bucks? [But] let Detroit go bankrupt. I'm running for office for Pete's sake,

Semiotics For Sale

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Buy random DNA on the open market and drive a poisoned stake into the heart of darkness.

AND I WILL REMAIN AS CAUTIOUS AS EVER

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We’re on the phone dead battery & I want this to last forever. The last thing I want to do is make decisions.

A Way of Place

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There are people walking, not knowing where they are, a way to peace is just that-- a place to go.

How Filthy the Human Mouth

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When he saw me, he jumped faster and faster, wild like something rabid.

Have You Seen The Globe Today?

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http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/articles/2011/07/17/imagine_mimes_as_the_mbta_noise_police/

Someday

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and as in real life, occasionally sneezed on.

Rest In Peace

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Gone he is in his designated place Just resting in peace while I barely move on

No.

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i try/to get/up but you prove/your strength.

MOMENT

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It was a cruel question, coming on breath that stank of the grave.