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I would like to invite the public to an open-air,
environmental art piece called Hot Weather.
The exhibition will take place this summer. It will
not begin until the temperature reaches 90 degrees.
This demonstration is available free of charge
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A man strolled by with perfect posture and a masterful comb-over. Bud gave me that 'get him' expression; sitting there with his own low side part. We razzed him about it all the time, but he still looked pretty-damn-good for seventy-five.
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Yet tenderness resided here
among the canvases,
the tubes of paint, brushes, and candle wax;
the splatters of discarded ideas.
We made love the way people said prayers
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are you afraid sometimes, in the night, in the wind as it beats down your maelstrom thoughts?
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And then she'd wipe her eyes, sweep her hair between the crest of her left ear and the side of her face and press that ear to the knot.
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(...) Suddenly there is a tram passing by and kills the Sausage (...)
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Upon further investigation two soldiers were found
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By the time he says “I am tired of the smell of pig shit and death” you’ve already lost interest
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not in the interest of verisimilitude/
for there's plenty of that in each day already/
as trajectories interrupt other trajectories
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When I met Sally
I was all
Unsuspecting
Of what powers
Might be found
In this world and
In a woman.
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Surely someone as clever as I can hatch a plan that will make them pay for rejecting me. Ignoring my genius has a cost and they will pay the price.
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I try to keep myself from weeping.
We are all actors in a bad dream,
that doesn’t go away in the morning
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I’ll give you a pair of grey cement pumps
then into the river, your body I’ll dump.
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When they first met at the bar, right away
he was sweet on her.
He drove an old oil-burning Buick or Olds,
going down the road like a smudge pot.
He never kept food in his car,
where it would get hot and spoiled.
He only picked nice fresh
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tragically / once upon a time / two people / far away / ...
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Questions unanswered proliferate/
across the April sky, blue//
with wisps of cirrus white.
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the Blue Ridge Mountains were entangled in their usual mist, but the early morning sky looked good
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You're all I've got to keep me company, but it's a very fine company. So familiar, and warm as any cold digital fireplace. I can tell you've got more in your story, but it doesn't make you happy. I really do not feel well today. Fun I wanted to…
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“You got a cigarette, man?” “Hey, mister, you got a cigarette?” “You got a cigarette, mister?” “Hey, mister, you listening to me? You got any spare change?” The voice was coming from the…
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You sit brooding at the barOn a Friday nightOn the patio on a Friday nightAnd people try to figure you outI thinkAnd I am so quite andSo tired Too tired to even drive homeDrainedI just need that drink to feel betterAnd I stare off in a hazeWhats wrong?I don't…
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He puts the briefcase on the sand and removes a pistol.
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“He’s a tough nut,” says CIA officer Marlon McGrath. “He says he’ll die a martyr rather than crack before we get to the Booster Club award for outstanding female athlete.”
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perhaps because it knows that time’s a solvent/
and dissolves all things in time.
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You will know the country for fences, for feces, for cows, or,
You will know the country for the smell of hay and manure blowing over the hills to you.
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demanded he give up muscatel art
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They hunger for new real estate/
and those resources underground
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Billy fell into a bottle, and we couldn't get him out.
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"Tell me what you remember."
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