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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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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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he makes his way back / to the ocean, back to the popcorn, back / to the pinball machines
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He shows me how lift the windshield wipers up, clean under them, put them down and I follow him around, watch him slap the sham over the van, pull it away, slap again. I do the same, stop every few minutes like Daddy does, hold it out, twist, wring the sh
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They ask about WWII and he claims no kills...
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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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On the Shore, Tel Aviv, Winter 1974
From the Songs of Crazy Dolores
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"Make a wish," she whispered.
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While Erik rubs my back, I fall asleep. I'm not lying on my bed in Florida - I'm face down on the pavement outside Brooklyn Pharmacy. And it's not Erik's hand smoothing oil of cassis into my skin, but that Officer Green's meaty one gripping me . . .
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In reenactments of the pressing to death of Giles Corey, Walter’s friends stacked pillows onto his chest while he defied his inquisitors.
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that day is my barking up and leaves falling down story, but in their elephant slowness it seemed no more than the regular run of the sun slightly disappearing here, and then maybe reappearing there, like a lost color, way over the horizon, or the…
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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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If, for just a crystal moment, you will submit to being a dove...
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1.Oh yes, I'm just kicking around in the leftover moon dust you could say I'm certainly not waiting around for your satellite feed anymore certainly never ever hoping to see if your free falling hair strands still look…
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This is what happened today.
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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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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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The day after falling in love,
I became unmoored from everything familiar.
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The barista with the fake rainbow nails and amazing cleft. . . .
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We are not alone, not as alone as we think.
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Poor Daniel gets the ultimate trick played on him by nature when he encounters a bear for this April Fool's Day Challenge story.
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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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Howard needed to finish this time. As his marriage slid further down the sinkhole toward divorce, it was important to him that his affair be successful.
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Since the divorce had gone final, the matter settled once and for all, he’d taken to a masochistic bingo of sorts.
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Sometimes he made us punch pillows. "Harder!" the shrink would yell.
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the heat and energy it takes
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----- Original Message ----- From :< brokengopher@hotmail.com> to: Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 9:15 PM Subject: The Bob Fosse Dream Dawn, Last night I had this dream that I was going through Bob Fosse's things. NowI don't know…
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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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“Why is it so warm? Do you feel that? I think it’s...pulsing.”
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