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Regarding Bill Yarrow’s Assertion that Herrick Was a Voyeur (Poor Julia: Violated, but Immortal)

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the observation, at the end, more/ important than the being there—

What the Father Said

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At night, instead of sleep, there were new and secret pleasures. Half-awake lessons in dexterity, in the limber material of human life.

After Detox

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When detox-man drives away, the windows down, the radio playing on the classic rock station (The Eagles), he thinks about moving out of town.

The Invisible Corpse Candle

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Her eyes stared wide with panic, her teeth chattered intermittently with impressive intensity, and with her ineffectual stabs at the air she completed the portrait of distracted mania.

The Death App

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The phone owner pre-writes his or her dying words! The app stores them and releases them at the moment of his death!

Out of the Loop

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Ed wants to watch the last half of the football game. His wife wants him to mow the lawn.

Gabrielle in Arrears

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You should be calling 911

Squirrel Boy, You Are My Toy

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unbury yourself from the silt and give me some seal love.

Time

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Tell Bono I want my seventy bucks back.

Heart

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She drew her hands out of the chest cavity and looked at the clock. ‘Time of death,’ she said.

Bring Me His Head

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Just bring me his head, that cerebral kiln of hot, ruddy verbiage and cadence.

palisades

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Driving up to the Palisades after 9/11 for a meteor shower

Optical Delusion

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Veiled by tenuous clouds and dirty air,

untitled

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I am a sunflower. I turn my yellow and black face, bruised, to the sun, hoping its light will heal me. With my eyes closed I can see my stamen, veins in my eyelids, bulbous where they intersect. The sun feeds…

My Affair With Tiger

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Face it girls, you want to claw my eyes out, don’t you? Or whack me across my 36 DD’s with a golf club, am I right? Well don’t blame me if I’m young, gorgeous, full-breasted and obviously the cat’s meow.

CONFUSION

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She asks if I would like to join them.

Found Poem

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The waters rose / on the earth

Mr. Smashface eats fast food at Supermarket # 9

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“Now God,” Mr. Smashface calls me out by name.

Turtle Summer

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He was her summer fling, the first cock to crow when the sun rose over her tequila smile.

The Yellow Butterfly

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Let whoever may read this know: I am an evil man, and I have done evil things.

Good For The Ducks

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It's dawn. It's quiet on the pond in the Public Garden. The light is calm, the pollution is mild, and everything is still,except for the occasional cruising taxi. It's the beginning of spring-- tulips out, leaves…

Only losers reminisce about their show & tell days

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Somehow I always had to sit behind him. I remember because he had a constellation of skin tags on his neck. I thought about drawing stars on him; I thought about creating a new galaxy I would rule. I should have been learning math instead. I still can’t

The Way Back Home

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500 miles all the way from Omaha nine hours on the back of a flatbed truck

Bedbugs

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I'm in awe of her frankness, how she takes my breath away, how I wish to rush off with her to a splendid hideaway where only the two of us touch the grape-stained mountains and the cerulean sea, wild blades of grass quivering with the breeze. Sometimes th

The Sum Above

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The mandatory is not / your friend

Rook

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What can I say about my brother, Stroman. We are twins and we hate each other. He is an honest, brave man with scruples. He is full of bullshit. He thinks I am morally twisted. He probably has a point there, but I don’t see what that has got to do with

Cranshaw on the Road / Chapel Access

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"Why so ornery?" she asked.

Fallen Women 1010

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Like all professors, I'm required to maintain office hours to help my students so I'm at my desk every fourth Tuesday of months without an "r" in them from 10:30 to 11:00 p.m.

Arcana Magi Memorial - c.5

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Azure became silent. She never thought of her death before, nor thought about actually fighting creatures and saving people’s lives.

Snuggie your Life Away

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Who is the moron that invented the Snuggie?