738 3 1
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Way stronger than Starbucks turned out to be.
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73721
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I found you at Darrell’s, the bar down the street.
A place where loose women and tight men might meet.
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73722
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Natalie blushed the vodka with an almost pointless twist of the fruit juice as I fought in my inside jacket pocket for my wallet...
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73644
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I didn't arrive at the Wicked Spoon every night in the same mood. Some nights I would arrive under the spell of a generous emptiness, what I like to call the euphoria of futility. Not exactly a state of bliss, but a dazed detachment in which everything is so pointlessly…
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73300
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The new nose--
I won’t ask how much it cost,
but something’s been lost.
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73200
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http://www.punchnels.com/fiction/the-frogman/
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73200
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The gates going up
and down like
gigantic windshield wipers
to let the existent
boxcars pass.
We went across these real
bumpy railroad tracks into
a town so
small there
wasn’t enough room
for the car,
so we got out and went ahe
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73240
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With his toga thrown over one shoulder because it was so hot out which has led to various and sundry theories of the naked centurions riding on horses in this manner through some unimaginable desert on a long march or even along the banks…
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73120
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The town is a wheel-less prairie schooner aground in a vast field of static
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73175
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73000
|
And then I get a call from a different kind of bar
They say you’re drunk on Cosmos and actin’ quite bizarre.
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73000
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The sacrificial tendency is a real ugly one A pound of flesh, because it grows back But gnarled and scarred For you, So you may smile or cry Whatever you need How about an ounce of truth? How about I make a maze And you walk through…
|
72900
|
Unready for the world,
we pawned ourselves
for a longer lease on youth.
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72800
|
to think of him looking at me / for he to be I and I to be he / it is almost unbearable / to occupy two bodies at once—
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72844
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As soon as I got the suspenders adjusted I felt different. I felt like Wilfred Brimley.
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72841
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72711
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not otherwise employed, writing verse,/
line by tenuous line the substance of pulse./
―but no one collects unemployed verse:/
self-lacerations must yield blood, not ink.
|
72711
|
The Divine and merciful Understanding Calls out to me But let me not speak its name. You are an unworthy hearer And I am a secret-keeper, cunning With keen thoughts and prayers of swift Justice Single is our thought and act And when we pray we know not what it…
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72510
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My sister walked in the room while I read Ginsberg / reciting the lines to Jaweh & Allah Battle to myself /sweating in the heat contour of my ugly body on the bed /
the room the stench of rottenhumanasscracksemen
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72400
|
So many ingenious traps for catching and hamstringing female poets have been invented that it is a rare editor who ever really sees one. H.L. Mencken
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72455
|
It was just her way. Slightly down and off to the left. Mom never looked anyone in the eye.
|
72420
|
You better not come home drunk, you shithead, or you'll be sleeping in the yard!
|
72321
|
Pigeons are really the souls of what were once beggars
in the endless squares of Paris, Venice, or Jerusalem.
They are born with the soul of a beggar
attached to them.
It is stuck beneath their wings.
They cannot fly without it,
and they ar
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723135
|
Death is both alien and intimate to us; neither wholly strange nor purely one's own.
|
72320
|
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72200
|
I am so lost in thought
as I ride out of the woods
that I forget which way I ought
to turn, left or right; this can’t be good.
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72131
|
The life, the burning up that works up our loveliness, hot under the surface that is tempted to show forth its parts after being confined, enclosed, shut in. Beautiful honey-water sliding out of long bleak skies, after all the howling of our legendary you
|
72143
|
"Living is easy with eyes closed/misunderstanding all you see.'--John Lennon That's an ache that's always inside me. How you'd rathertreat people as if they don't matteras much as some nice sounding words in a song. Their voicesas less than an annoying wind? Because…
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72132
|
December scent
rains coming down
sodden leaves underfoot
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72033
|
Will you join me kneeling in a Homegoods parking lot
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