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My Summer Vacation

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Apple is apple plum plum that is a kiss without a tongue

Crosses

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Crosses sitting on the hillside

Why is a Hog always Corpulent ? (or Another Special Exhibit at the Met)

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"the initial hors d'œuvres, those good offerings that he would present to his select and redoubtably upstanding guests, at some grotesque banquet where elegant sows, in couture gowns, and astoundingly decorous coiffures, preen and plume about all through

Dead Tom, at the Side of the Road

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The dead turkey’s wife, or lover Watching over his recent roadkilled carcass Seeming to be mourning her loss

All You Wanna do is to Sink (but you stink)

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into another bright vat of boiling over hot lies. It's sick, man, the way you'd rather dig for a supposed (royal) buried treasure than make a new beautiful thing start to happen, breakyour back, break your spirit, over and over, until there's nothing left to…

Art Takes Over

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She must fuck like a marmot That’s all I can say, if he already turned his back On the Statue of Puberty To get near to her What do you think it means? He joins the hierarchy Where they sit On the steps of life And she passes the healing

Gritty City Creates Knowledge Zone, But Some Feel Left Out

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Worcester, Mass. is a gritty central Massachusetts city known to some as the Industrial Abrasives Capital of the World, and to others for its numerous railroad car diners.

Unsuccessful Assault Upon a Prey Thought Unsuspecting

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The fox sees a duck he thinks he can catch. I stop to watch: I could intervene with a shout but I let him play his gambit out.

What Isn't Mine Suffices

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Leaves fall. Snow falls. Both fall beyond my notice

One Of These Dreams ...

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Imagine a morning without dawn, without daylight ... The night birds still hoot, the flowers wait for the light to change their make-up, black birds have locked their beaks. A morning unlike any other ... The moon above continues to reign over the milky way, the stars to…

Event Particle

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Together they explore availabilities

that picture of you

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Oh my God! The question of whether or not we each have a double has been answered. Yours is living in Louisville, KY. It was you...young you. I already knew it, but seeing your picture just slammed it home. Again. I knew I shouldn't have told you

In the Sun

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The light was bright andthey sat on the railing of the long wooden bridge in the sun. She looked up at her father."Oh Daddy, where did you go?" she asked.He was young with black shinny hair blowing in the wind. "To Heaven, little girl,"She shook her head."What's…

The Water Tower

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Every other year or so, a high school senior would go and climb the thing, and paint something vapid, jejune, as the spinster English teacher would say.

The Caracol, a snapshot

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waves assaulted black volcanic rock in briny harmony

Warm Day, Virus City

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From inside the baking hot car we watched our father, nervous in his face mask and gloves, step through the wooden gate into grandma's front garden. She was waiting for him, thin and lonely behind the frilled lace curtain. She held the iPad in her left hand, and she…

Four Days in Singapore

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I’ve lost something at sea / and am at a foreign island to find it.

Asleep on His Helmet

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He wore a jacket with just a letter; by this conspicuous reserve he hoped to show the others it didn’t matter what you did last year, only who you hit in the here and now, and how hard.

How You Gonna Keep Him Down On The Farm?

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He decided to avoid startling her from the rear, which he recalled vaguely was a good strategy with any female.

I Won't Be Back

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On my snowshoe walk today a man leaned out his window and yelled at me to go away.

When I Lied To You

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You thought you dated wild girls? They were tame compared to how I turned out. Ever hear of the Chicago motorcycle club called the Hell's ___? (Chicago's watered down version of the Hell's Angels, but we did party with some of them, and the Outlaws, onc

Please, Pope!

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With all due respect Pope—yer outta yer mind. I mean—have you got mice in yer mitre there Padre?

The Poet and The Escape

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What I have doneOh what I have becomeWhat happened to all I thought I had known?This will not standMy mind becoming rottenThe things I thought were important to meHave all become forgottenWashing my convictions in cheap alcoholFeeding my misery with one kind, then allMy…

Cuteness vs. Astuteness

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There’s no greater reward than the plaudients you get from a tough female audience.

Before The Ship Leaves

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I head for the dock, and brush my fedora with a wad of Pythagorean moss. The captain is a clumsy angel with a stethoscope and a bowl of bouillon. Three months later we arrive in Cartagena. I have a headache the size of China.

The End of Civilization as We Know It

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The End of Civilization as We Know It Question is, how many carpets did you see flying in close formation? Question is, which hand would you use If you were asked to choke yourself for the sake of civilization? The real question is, if you could

The Song in the American Soul

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They are riding through the wild onion of life One layer at a time Turning the world inside out Looking for the unusual patterns Inside the gaping muscle of space With its heart-pounding unnatural heat

Fast Food (with side of religion)

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Man wolfing banana in his car on University Place Chinese girl walks by and his head follows her all the way until his head is twisted 180 degrees

The Pitch

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This is what I am saying now.

fall is falling faster than your nightmares

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the rails we use when we get tired of unraveling the ways their read red lips kill the explanation we amp we vamp Hell's steep hallucination