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At some point, Spiro thinks, everyone must look like a sniper.
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I try to envision long-haired men riding horses across a vast expanse, their faces blank as those of my students.
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We were young, she said, it was all in front of us. We should never have settled for this.
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She didn't care for the taste. Slightly salty and sweet at the same time, but she let him come in her mouth just the same
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The store was closing for good, and so I purchased a book of poems by Cavafy,
that poet of ruins and tombstones, and fragments from disintegration.
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Maybe we all met, somewhere, in between streets.
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I've been struck with a bout of writer's block, struggling to get pen to page or finger to keyboard....So I make paper airplanes.
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Pull her from the water and check
her pockets. Shouldn’t death tattoo
a message on each palm it removes
the pulse from.
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In every word there is both music and history. Music from the way sounds come into union with each other, and history in how they get there. There is form too, sure, but I am not a calligrapher. I'm a scribbler if anything. And so my sentences look mo
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His movements were slowed by the metaphysical force of his own passing recollections, and he brushed from his face the silt he'd distrurbed on this forced descent.
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A boy stalks three deer across an open field.
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I wanted to watch, for as long as I could, until my innocence, like balloons, disappeared from view.
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We are not alone, not as alone as we think.
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I took 7 Beatle Song Titles and Made 7 Darryl Poems Out of Them"Some musicians heal ethnic groups. Some musicians heal nations. The Beatles healed an entire planet."--Joe Queenan"There was adventure,knowingness,love,and abundant charm.From any angle,they are the…
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i am wire i am wiredi am soaking fucking tiredi am sorry i am coldi am so fucking unsoldi am endlessi am statici am past lost time fanatici am wounded i am seethingi am bothered angry leaving.i am metal i am wateri am sister fucking daughteri am nothing i am lazyi am…
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Sally was bathing Homeless Hope in her bathtub when the phone rang in the kitchen.
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Just a little shop girl in for the summer. Working on a typewriter. Barely knowing where the keys were. That was her. She was terrible at it. He was in a suit. He looked short, and thin, but something about him was captivating. He was in his own way hands
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he makes his way back / to the ocean, back to the popcorn, back / to the pinball machines
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Emi was cheerful and nice towards her classmates. It was like she saw a different person last night. Emi’s pupil-less red eyes frightened her, and the spell that she cast on her, that bump on the head still lingered.
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The barista with the fake rainbow nails and amazing cleft. . . .
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"Make a wish," she whispered.
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If there was a God he was deaf in both ears, blind in both eyes and dumb.
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The day after falling in love,
I became unmoored from everything familiar.
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Millie was a good woman, Bobby said. A good Christian woman. Well, I said, you can’t hold that against her.
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“Why is it so warm? Do you feel that? I think it’s...pulsing.”
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The kitchen I snuck out of seventeen years before kept fading to black and white, with this layer of something between me and them.
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Sometimes he made us punch pillows. "Harder!" the shrink would yell.
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Somewhere along the line he had also become a junkie, so he had a plastic bottle filled with methadone. I took a swig of that as we decided to jump in a cab and go to a dance club. It was a total shit-hole...
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Thank you for submitting your epic poem I, I, I for consideration. While we are encouraged that you have relented from the ruthless self-endictment you affected so unconvincingly in your previous entry, Why Am I...
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