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September Morning

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They were carried out / over shoulders of running soldiers / naked bodies pass

And her child

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The mother was happy, though. She was happy because she could make him some soup and then she could feed it to him in bed.

Fever

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Mesmerizing, the night’s queer colors, the darkness given depth by the earth’s crystalline sheen, by a sky choked with a million fleeting prisms. In the woods surrounding the house another branch snapped, a gunshot loud crack. The echo lingered, cap

The Grape

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I would be reduced to begging on the streets and hoping for a sign of her in soup lines.

one dozen haiku

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strumming on the pipe/blowing on the lute's body/drumming on the horn.

Homing Pigeons

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Sometimes, they beat their masters home...

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (Update)

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A group of scientists in San Francisco struggle to stay alive in the aftermath of a plague that is wiping out humanity, while Caesar tries to maintain dominance over his community of intelligent apes.(IMDB synopsis) That's the idea swimming so far as it is in…

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…

The beautiful young girls from high school

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A Hole In The Bucket

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In 1978, a computer program became privy to my grandmother's most secret thoughts.

Don't Wash, Don't Tell

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Butch the Labradoodle sets some necessary boundaries.

What To Believe

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Being simple like this, knowing a thing is done by doing.

Hardaway's Poems Piss Off DC Bigwig

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Gladstone called him a ‘goddam nihilist’--

The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 1

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In those days everyone ate poetry for lunch. It was considered essential for your good up-bringing and mental health. We would skip a meal in order to satisfy our hunger for words. To hell with a meal. To hell with dirty politics and meaningless wars on o

this day before tomorrow

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Back arching, spine twisted, muscles tense and turning. I am putting off my work. Jane Eyre is in the back of my mind whispering about childhood patriarchy and I am still clinging to images from dreams before waking; my last lover's face scrunched and…

Bride and Groom

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He wears an old black tux, shiny at the elbows, and his gray hair has been styled and sprayed into a fragile tornado. On his lap sits a Chihuahua wearing a bridal outfit—veil and all.

Glance

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I saw a former lover today, by complete accident.

Optical Delusion

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Veiled by tenuous clouds and dirty air,

moving forward

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see this:/ ink-stained paper/ littering miles

Clean

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I am standing in my neighbor’s back yard in my underwear, and my trash can is clean.

THE SHIFT

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"leaves &damage, &shifts of shape"

Miracle Bra for my behind

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Do you want an ass mi Nina Bonita? I buy you jeans that work like a Miracle Bra for your behind.

Butterfly, a novel by Julie O’Yang (excerpt)

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‘So what exactly did you decide?'It was two years later that Sato-san put the question to me. The two of us had been hiding for two bloody years, moving about in the marshes along the river, living off small, skimpy meals. We couldn't turn back to our unit, because Cesaru…

Shadow Man

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Words are not like bricks. The neighborhood flowers from within the rituals that enframe the drinking of a macchiato in a café. Now it hovers over the page.

Mr. Smashface eats fast food at Supermarket # 9

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

There's No Crying in Poetry

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There’s / no crying in poetry!” says Coach / Bukowski

~true myth zoo spa~

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flash read. have fun *cheers*

Poets House, NYC (revised)

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Oh, you can’t stay, your poetry/ Is still out in the world, maybe when you die/Your volumes will make their way/Not just here but everywhere

WTF! Godot, a Sex Addict?

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The man in the gray trench coat showed up around a quarter to eight.

Across the street.

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When the talking's done, they get in their cars to go wherever they go, and just as soon as that last car clears the path, the yellow-cabbed trucks are back and the men get out.